This two-day conference will be the ninth in a series initiated by MORI founder Robert Worcester who helped organize the first event of its kind to reflect on the momentous General Election of 1979. Since then the Political Studies Association’s Elections Public Opinion and Parties Group has continued to bring together representatives from the party, media and polling organisations […]
This article is part of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative with the Sydney Democracy Network. The project aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing democracies in the 21st century. In 1085, almost two decades had passed since William the Conqueror’s victory at Hastings, but his realm was not secure. […]
1992 and all that? Much has been said about the similarities between this campaign and the 1992 election. Loughborough University CRC began its ‘real time’ analyses of election news in that campaign, and, as someone who has been personally involved in all of our election studies, I can confirm that in media terms there […]
Just as formal political institutions and activities are dominated by men, so too is the news coverage those institutions attract. The recent UK General Election was no different, just 15.2% of all politicians featured in the media coverage were women, 17.4% of articles were written by female journalists and 13.5% of experts consulted by the […]
The European Commission has taken a radical step in announcing a new policy on immigration, following the deaths of thousands of people in the Mediterranean.
This is the fifth in a series of reports by the Loughborough University Communication Research Centre on national news reporting of the 2015 UK General Election.
Press partisanship returned with a vengeance in the closing days of the 2015 General Election campaign, research by Loughborough University has found. Since the start of the campaign academics at Loughborough have been conducting a weekly real time news audit, lifting the lid on what media coverage the parties, their policies, MPs and their partners are securing. […]
As we enter the final stages of the 2015 General Election campaign, a new and controversial figure has taken centre stage: Russell Brand. His appearance isn’t entirely unexpected. Brand has long illustrated that he has been socially and politically engaged throughout his career as a professional comedian. In April 2012 Brand appeared before the Home […]
Previous research has noted a curious ambivalence concerning the role of the public in news reporting. While the press insist that they speak on behalf of their readers, and while Vox Pop interviews, opinion polls and inferences about public opinion are all regular components of news reporting that allow journalists to make ‘ample references’ to […]
This is the fourth in a series of reports by the Loughborough University Communication Research Centre on national news reporting of the 2015 UK General Election. The results in this report are derived from detailed content analysis of election coverage produced on the weekdays (i.e. Monday to Friday inclusive) between 30th March and 29 April […]
