Get out of the plane?

Good analysis of the potential ITV/Comcast deal

Obscene www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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...

Really interesting journalist/academic investigation

An interesting study examining 10m social media posts across 7 platforms finds that users share more higher-quality news relative to lower-quality news, but low-quality news attracts relatively more engagement.

Why is the BBC calling Zohran Mamdani "radical left"? A fair description or an echo of Donald Trump's language? open.substack.com/pub/mattwals...

Surprised that BBC R4 is using the tag radical left to describe Mamdani. Sarah Smith used it yesterday in a voicer at 8am, the newsreader did today in the same bulletin. Surely echoes Trump’s language.

The Trump edit in the BBC doc is bad. It links two parts of the speech in a way that is misleading. A basic journalistic error. But it’s a few seconds of archive 34 minutes into an hour long doc broadcast years after Jan 6. It doesn’t invalidate the BBC’s reporting of the day or its consequences.

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

This genuinely mad. Surely they didn’t believe it was real?!

Delighted to announce we are advertising our first academic post in the Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM). The position is Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science and is joint with Politics, the Oxford Internet Institute, and Reuben College 1/n

Times journalists urged to make ‘basic’ checks after two ‘humiliating’ hoaxes - the so-called royal cleaner revealed by Press Gazette, and last week's Bill de Blasio 'interview' pressgazette.co.uk/news/times-j...

Why do we know that the suspect in the Huntingdon rail attack is black and British? I'm afraid it's not for good reasons. open.substack.com/pub/mattwals...

This story seems confused. At best. www.thetimes.com/article/6ae2...

I suspect most journalists will have the same response to the Times DeBlasio story. Sweaty-palmed, stomach clenching realisation about how easily it could happen to you. Possibly followed by a bit of social media schadenfreude

Sounds like The Times got duped www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bill-d...

Not at all surprised by this. Most of it appears to be rubbish and although I've tried training it to not surfce crap, it continues to do so. pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/go...

The BBC is "deeply concerned" about one of its journalists in Vietnam who it said has been unable to leave the country for several months as their passport and ID card have been withheld and they have been subjected to "multiple days of questioning" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

David Cameron's description of the type of person likely to join Ukip and now Reform still seems bang on the money.

📢 It's out: The new @worldsofjournalism.bsky.social report ➡️rich data from 3rd wave of WJS study ➡️ survey of more than 32,350 journalists across 75 countries ➡️ perspectives from diverse media systems, political regimes, and cultural contexts Free download www.worldsofjournalism.org/reports-wjs3/

www.facebook.com/share/p/19C1... My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)

If anyone wants to hear me talk about the impartiality of broadcasters, check out Roger Bolton’s latest Beeb watch podcast 👇 I discuss the latest findings of our @cujournmedcul.bsky.social AHRC project with @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social @perkinskeighley.bsky.social @maxwellmodell.bsky.social

We've updated our analysis of media coverage of the Caerphilly by-election to go in-depth on the final week of campaigning. Including an analysis of Chris Mason's BBC News at Ten report which gave Reform UK's candidate twice the airtime of Labour's or Plaid Cymru's. tinyurl.com/4kw6m5a6

Now, is this "residents" in rural Scotland who feel like they live in Communist China, or one hyperbolic opposition MP desperate for a headline (and being given one by an uncritical media)?

45% of all AI answers had at least one significant issue. 31% of responses showed serious sourcing problems – missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions. 20% contained major accuracy issues, including hallucinated details and outdated information. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Listening, with students studying foreign news reporting at JOMEC, to Oscar nominated filmmaker Waad al Kateab.

Will my Uni fees rise next year? Yes, says the BBC's Education Reporter, who doesn't appear to know that education, like health, is devolved. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Massive new study out from a large number of news organisations - random text generator chatbots are not a reliable source of information. Includes demonstrations of how it specifically gets climate answers specifically very wrong -->> www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...

It is astonishing how far the conservatives have fallen. From the first PM from an ethnic minority to threats of deportations of people legally living in the country in less than 18 months.

Katie Lam's plan would mean parents with settled status who have children who are British citizens potentially being deported. Wouldn't it?

It’s another update from @stephencushion.bsky.social, @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social, @maxwellmodell.bsky.social & myself! We commissioned YouGov to carry out a survey exploring how the UK public thinks broadcast airtime should be allocated between political parties 🔗 tinyurl.com/5cms7mcp TLDR 👇

Thoughtful write-up of our latest audience study in @politicshome.bsky.social. We found the public supports the principle of impartiality, wants more balanced representation of political parties, and believe that more can be done to scrutinise the major political parties. tinyurl.com/yke8pkek

Bit on the nose

Our new @cujournmedcul.bsky.social research featured in the I paper showing news audiences want tougher scrutiny of Nigel Farage and Reform UK given the party could be heading for government. Thread 1/6

📺 New research from @cujournmedcul.bsky.social's Enhancing the Impartiality of Political News project Our latest study analyses how BBC Cymru Wales and ITV Wales have covered the Caerphilly by-election across TV, online & social media. 🔗 www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/bbc-itv... TLDR 👇

Ofcom's updated its guidance about politicians presenting news and current affairs programmes. And it's confusing. www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...

Bullish response on Radio 4 Feedback by the BBC’s Chris Mason to allegations of too much Reform coverage. He takes on a number of the issues we’ve highlighted in the Enhancing Impartiality project. Well worth a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

As ever @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social is excellent on this BBC survey. The major issue comes from those that engage with the survey - and surveys generally - or do not engage. This does not tell you the full picture. Far from it. www.journalism.co.uk/news/bbc-pub...

At @cujournmedcul.bsky.social we published a new study of BBC and ITV coverage of the by-election in Caerphilly so far. We found Reform and Farage featured prominently - which will benefit Farage as the most popular UK party leader in Wales. Thread 1/6 www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/bbc-itv...

Our new AHRC @cujournmedcul.bsky.social research now focused on the impartiality of broadcasters in Wales during the by-election in Caerphilly - lots to debate and well covered in the Nation.Cymru 👇With @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social @perkinskeighley.bsky.social @maxwellmodell.bsky.social

The Impartiality Project (@stephencushion.bsky.social, @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social, @maxwellmodell.bsky.social & me) recently commissioned YouGov to survey public attitudes towards impartiality. The findings reveal audiences view trust, scrutiny & media regulation. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3tfm6rvf TLDR 👇

“Immigration has been the main political theme in British politics for months, despite net migration to Britain almost halving to 431,000 last year” New research from @stephencushion.bsky.social & @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social reported in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

More than 7 million viewers for Celebrity Traitors last night. Sensational in this day and age.

Michael hits the nail on the head here. A flawed methodology that Stewart Purvis has previously highlighted

Ofcom used qualitative "focus groups", including GB News viewers, to reach the view there was "no consensus" to stop politicians fronting "current affairs" shows. Farage's show not classed as "news". This new quantitative research appears to contradict that finding. Could Nandy/Ofcom reopen this?

The Guardian has written up our latest research looking at whether or not the public is in favour of politicians presenting news or current affairs programmes - and showing that some viewers are labouring under factual misapprehensions. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

Good to see that the BBC has stopped calling it a peace deal. Bowen's right about this - it's ceasefire but there's a long way to go before anything can be seen as a peace deal.

'It's Not A Peace Deal': BBC Expert Delivers Brutal Reality Check To Donald Trump Over Gaza www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/its-no...