New research by the Impartiality project team (@stephencushion.bsky.social, @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social, @maxwellmodell.bsky.social & myself) tracked coverage of the Greens on BBC & ITV News at 10. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yzmeujxm 🧵👇 #impartiality #GreenParty #GortonandDenton #byelection

Write up of our latest research on impartiality, and why the Greens are still struggling for a broadcast breakthrough

New blog! The @greenparty.org.uk striking victory brings into focus how the broadcasters treat the party. Despite sustained improvements in opinion ratings, our new research suggests broadcasters still treat them as a minor party of little electoral significance. tinyurl.com/35yzcsas (1/6)

Our new research about the Green Party well summarised below 👇

EXCL: SNP appearances plummet and right-wing journos appear twice as often as left-wing...🤔 Some intriguing findings by media experts at @cardiffuni.bsky.social about Question Time in 2025👀 Thanks to @maxwellmodell.bsky.social for sharing insights! www.thenational.scot/news/2577777...

A new blog from the Enhancing the Impartiality of News project takes a look at who appeared on Question Time throughout 2025 & what those guest choices reveal about how the programme interprets political balance. 🔗 bit.ly/4jLeYY2 🧵👇 #BBC #QuestionTime #impartiality #impartialityproject

With Question Time returning to our screens for 2026, we decided to look back at who appeared on the programme in 2025 to assess how producers interpreted impartiality when selecting panellists, updating @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social's study of panellists from 2014-2024. tinyurl.com/yc77s5mp

🧵 7/7 The Impartiality Project consists of @stephencushion.bsky.social, @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social, @maxwellmodell.bsky.social & myself. #impartiality #impartialityproject #politicalcommunication #polsky

Rise of Reform's coverage in TV coverage through 2025 well illustrated in our new @cujournmedcul.bsky.social study 👇

I must admit I have absolutely no understanding of TV news but I can see why devolution and the end of two-party politics pose big challenges for flagship network bulletins. Are BBC/ITN editors getting the balance right? www.thetimes.com/article/0e0f...

Our new Cardiff University study picked up in the @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social 👇

In September, Reform overtook the Tories as the most referenced oppositional party on the BBC and ITV News at Ten programmes

Our new Cardiff University study featured today in @scotnational.bsky.social 👇

In our latest blog, we (@stephencushion.bsky.social, @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social, @maxwellmodell.bsky.social & myself) analyse how BBC News at Ten & ITV News at Ten cover opposition parties & their leaders. 🔗 tinyurl.com/5ypk7wv4 #impartialityproject #politicaljournalism #mediastandards

Exclusive: Reform overtook the Tories as the most referenced opposition party on both the BBC and ITV. “Reform UK was the dominant party in more than twice as many stories as the Conservatives and just under four times more stories than the Liberal Democrats." www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Our new study 🚨'Are broadcasters reflecting multi-party politics in the UK? An analysis of BBC News at Ten and ITV News at Ten in 2025' written up brilliantly by @rmcunliffe.bsky.social in The @newstatesman1913.bsky.social Thread with headlines: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

“While our study found no breaches of the UK's rules on due impartiality, we concluded that broadcasters may want to execute some caution when reporting parties on the basis of setting the political weather – otherwise it could encourage parties to adopt extreme positions/policies”

BBC use wide range of criteria to allocate airtime to parties - our new research suggests they’re relying more on opinion polls and which party sets the political weather which is why Reform now covered more than Cons in evening bulletins: bsky.app/profile/step...

BBC coverage of Nigel Farage and Reform UK under scrutiny on latest Newswatch. From midnight Fri on link/Sat 745am on BBC1 Breakfast www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

You can see how far flagship tv bulletins covered the greens in this new study: bsky.app/profile/step...

Research illuminates what different people do think and don't think about when hearing about "illegal immigration" or "illegal immigrants" in media, political and policy discourse

Detailed summary of our latest report on opposition party coverage in broadcast news 👇

Our new study 🚨'Are broadcasters reflecting multi-party politics in the UK? An analysis of BBC News at Ten and ITV News at Ten in 2025' written up brilliantly by @rmcunliffe.bsky.social in The @newstatesman1913.bsky.social Thread with headlines: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Great summary of our Caerphilly by election media study 👇

A new article by @stephencushion.bsky.social for @theconversation.com highlights while the BBC is no stranger to accusations of bias, the Prescott memo is far from the rigorous assessment many assumed it to be. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3cx8edjp 🧵👇 #journalism #journalismstudies #BBC #mediareporting

The roof is falling in at the BBC on the back of the Prescott investigation, but the report itself is badly flawed. Good piece here by @stephencushion.bsky.social. theconversation.com/bbc-bias-the...

The Prescott memo which sparked chaos at the BBC was in no sense a rigorous, systematic or scientific document. All it did was cherrypick a few examples of alleged bias, as well as a couple of mistakes. So why isn’t the memo being put under greater scrutiny, asks @stephencushion.bsky.social?

BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands theconversation.com/bbc-bias-the...

theconversation.com/bbc-bias-the... Claims of bias against the BBC in the recent furore rest on the ‘Prescott Report’. Apart from the wrongful editing of Trump on Panorama for which the BBC has apologised the claims do not meet normal research standards, as this expert refutation shows.

And as @stephencushion.bsky.social has written ‘The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands’

NEW: What on earth happened at the BBC this week? And why would anyone want to replace Tim Davie? The behind the scenes concerns about this week’s impact on the BBC’s future: www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...

Our new @cujournmedcul.bsky.social analysis of the Prescott Memo - the research informing was not impartial. We need more rigorous and robust research 👇

“Broadly speaking, we have not found evidence of any systemic [ #BBC] #bias as alleged in the #Prescott memo. Nor have we alleged flagrant breaches of broadcast #impartiality. We have, however, identified blind spots where more context, background and explanation would help audiences…”

Excellent article from @stephencushion.bsky.social interrogating the quality of evidence in the Prescott memo and whether it proves its claims of systematic bias in the BBC. Ultimately, it is a rallying cry for robust, transparent and clearly evidenced research into the impartiality.

Talking about the BBC News crisis to @markurban.bsky.social & former dep chief exec of BBC News Richard Ayre for latest BBC Newswatch. From midnight Fri on link or BBC1 Sat 745am www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I’ve just published a new article in the @uk.theconversation.com entitled 'BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands’ Thread 1/8: theconversation.com/bbc-bias-the...

Is there political bias at BBC Wales News - favouring @plaidcymru.bsky.social? Our new systematic study of the Caerphilly by-election coverage on BBC TV, online and social media found NO evidence supporting this allegation - BBC Wales broadly balanced coverage of the major parties 👇

Since joining the impartiality project, I’ve been been diving into debates on impartiality (trying to catch up with @stephencushion.bsky.social, @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social & @maxwellmodell.bsky.social!). Nick Bradshaw’s new IDA piece is a must-read. 🔗 tinyurl.com/ycxkbu8s 🧵👇 #impartiality #BBC

Important thread about how the BBC mitigates political polarisation in the 🇬🇧 because it’s so widely consumed compared to the 🇺🇸 where people rely on a wide range of information sources 👇

"The main UK BBC analysis of the Caerphilly result read: 'Extraordinary by-election humbles Westminster’s big beasts' with a narrative centred on the decline of Labour & the Tories. "Plaid Cymru, who won by 11%, was the fourth party mentioned." Its leader was not. Farage had a photo AND quotes.

Important article shining a light on how BBC News regulates itself, including when confronted by allegations of breaching impartiality 👇

Great write-up of our latest Caerphilly by-election report by Martin Shipton and Nation Cymru

Our new @cujournmedcul.bsky.social study of how the #Caerphilly by-election was reported featured in @nation.cymru - the distinction between how Wales and UK-wide media cover the Senedd elections next year could be significant given more people rely on news produced in England than in Wales 👇

A really fascinating piece of research.

New impartiality study: Contrasting media coverage of the Caerphilly by-election in Wales with UK-wide news: how did broadcasters balance parties and leaders? Thread 1/10 www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/caerphi...

Despite shifting politics and declining support for the industry, Dudfield said the goal hasn’t changed. “We’re fact-checkers. We check facts,”

“On BBC News at Ten, the time provided to the Reform candidate UK (1m 01s) was much longer than those given to candidates from Labour (36 seconds), Plaid Cymru (30 seconds) and the Conservatives (16 seconds). Nigel Farage was the only UK party leader referenced.”

New impartiality study: Contrasting media coverage of the Caerphilly by-election in Wales with UK-wide news: how did broadcasters balance parties and leaders? Thread 1/10 www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/caerphi...

Ofcom has ruled TalkTV breached its impartiality rules after host Kevin O’Sullivan claimed the UK Government had “cancelled” local elections out of fear of Reform UK’s rise in the polls. 🔗 tinyurl.com/u55jmwbp TLDR 👇 #impartialityproject #politicalnews #politicaldiscourse #Ofcom #impartality

Today on Newscast Kemi Badenoch discussed her love of the Marvel, comparing her leadership to a superhero origin story. Kemi is not the first Tory leader to do this. Rishi Sunak also presented himself as a popular nerd, talking about Star War. I wrote about this in Journalism tinyurl.com/49krntzr