Have 24 hour news channels had their day?

Are 24 hour news channels - which transformed news broadcasting 30 years ago, still fit for purpose? Or in an age of open interactive media are these closed, linear channels no longer providing the service consumers increasingly want

Panama Papers: the nuts and bolts of a massive international investigation

The reporting of the Panama Papers – which has been based on a massive global analysis of documents leaked from law firm Mossack Fonseca outlining how the world’s elite use tax havens – is a remarkable feat of collaboration which builds on several trends in investigative journalism

Now is the time to decide: what kind of BBC do you want?

There is now a clear choice following the publication of the British government’s green paper into the future of the BBC

BBC White Paper: the worst has not come to pass, but the leash is tightening

The dust is settling on the skirmishes of the past few months, now that the White Paper on the future of the BBC has been published. While many of the worst fears of the corporation’s supporters have not come to pass there are still some big points of principle at stake – and a lack of detail in key areas

BBC White Paper: the worst has not come to pass, but the leash is tightening

The dust is settling on the skirmishes of the past few months, now that the White Paper on the future of the BBC has been published. While many of the worst fears of the corporation’s supporters have not come to pass there are still some big points of principle at stake – and a lack of detail in key areas

Newspapers, Impartiality and Television News

Drawing on a content analysis of television news and newspapers during the 2015 UK General Election along with semi-structured interviews with the heads and/or senior editors of news or politics from each broadcaster examined, we explore the intermedia agenda-setting influence of the national press during the campaign. Overall, we found similar policy-orientated agendas, with more stories emanating from right-wing newspapers and moments when front-page splashes dominated television news coverage. Many broadcasters were editorially comfortable with covering stories originating from newspapers if further context was supplied. Our findings do not point towards any deliberate political bias among broadcasters. We suggest instead that a range of structural constraints and professional routines encouraged broadcasters to feed off stories that were more likely to be supplied by right-leaning newspapers. Since news values are not politically neutral, we argue that if journalists or editors routinely rely on newspapers to help shape the political agenda it compromises their ability to make impartial judgements about news selection. Combining quantitative and qualitative analysis, we conclude, could help to better understand the editorial processes behind the selection of news and to more carefully interpret intermedia agenda-setting than large N studies can supply

Have 24 hour news channels had their day?

Are 24 hour news channels - which transformed news broadcasting 30 years ago, still fit for purpose? Or in an age of open interactive media are these closed, linear channels no longer providing the service consumers increasingly want

Killing the messenger: report of the global inquiry by the International News Safety Institute into the protection of journalists

The report will consider proposals for reinforcing existing levels of protection including the possible need for a new international convention dealing specifically with the safety and protection of journalists including, if required, an emblem to achieve a secure and safe environment for journalists and those who work with them