The reporting of the 2015 – weekly reports by the Communication Research Centre

For the remainder of the campaign, Loughborough University Communication Research Centre will produce a series of reports about news coverage of the 2015 General Election. The first report will be made publicly available on Monday 13 April. The reports will provide commentary about the week’s coverage and systematic measurements of

1. Which politicians and parties received most coverage
2. The proportion of negative and positive coverage of candidates and parties
3. Which issues received greatest prominence
4. The amount of coverage given to the election

Further details about our media sample and research methods are provided in the methods section of our blog (see https://blog.lboro.ac.uk/general-election/methodology-2/)