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.
Read morePress 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. […]
Read moreAs 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 […]
Read morePrevious 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 […]
Read moreThis 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 […]
Read moreIn our recent election campaign reports, we have shown that immigration (and other related issues) has failed to attain the levels of coverage that its position among the list of public policy concerns might warrant, occupying only 3.7 % of coverage between 30 March and 20 April. Over the past week, however, it seems that outside […]
Read moreThis is the third of a series of reports by the Loughborough University Communication Research Centre on national news reporting of the 2015 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 22 April from […]
Read moreStrident partisanship in the popular press has a lengthy history. And the wrath of the British tabloids used to give politicians considerable pause for thought, particularly during elections. The long defunct Daily Sketch, for example, consistently attacked the Labour party throughout the 1950s. But it was the late 1970s that marked a step-change. Having bought […]
Read moreEven with female party leaders women have featured in barely a fifth of media coverage of the 2015 General Election so far, researchers at Loughborough University have found. Academics from the University’sCommunication Research Centre(CRC) are conducting a real time news audit of the 2015 General Election campaign, lifting the lid each week on what media […]
Read moreThis is the second of 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 15 April […]
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