Why context, relevance and repetition matter in news reporting: Interpreting the United Kingdom’s political information environment

Cushion, Stephen; Lewis, Justin; Kilby, Allaina

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“…Whilst several scholars have examined the relationship between individual nations and regions to the BBC (Christophers, 2008; Cushion et al, 2020; Genders, 2019; Hibberd, 2010; McElroy et al, 2019; McElroy and Noonan, 2016; Noonan, 2012; Potschka and Golding, 2012), few scholarly accounts have looked holistically at the relationship between the BBC and the concept of Nations and Regions. The exception to this is Harvey and Robins (1993).…”

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‘Rooting’ the BBC: An interview with Rhodri Talfan Davies, Director of BBC Nations

McElroy

Noonan

2022

Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Te

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In early 2021, Rhodri Talfan Davies was appointed Director of Nations, a role which would see him lead all the BBC’s work across Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland, alongside his responsibilities as Director of BBC Wales. Shortly after this appointment, and the announcement of further commitments by the BBC to nations and regions, the authors interviewed Talfan Davies to understand the decisions that flow from translating the often abstract concept of national regions and English regionalism into a coherent set of organisational strategies, commissioning priorities and local production. A second purpose was to explore the value of local programming in an era of global television.

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‘Rooting’ the BBC: An interview with Rhodri Talfan Davies, Director of BBC Nations

McElroy

Noonan

2022

Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Te

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“…In a different context, Baena and Byker (2015) and Leberg (2018) note the use of class hierarchies to structure narratives and characterisation in Downton Abbey and The Hollow Crown (BBC, 2012(BBC, -2016, respectively, which equate Englishness with nobility and marginalise other national or regional identities, associating them with 'savagery, subordinance and arrogance' (Leberg, 2018, p. 23) Research focused on news coverage of issues related to the UK's nations and regions found that even for issues particularly relevant to the devolved nations (such as the Scottish referendum), coverage tended to focus on English news, politics and perspectives. Contextual information to help viewers understand the detail of devolved issues was limited (Hassan, 2018;Cushion, Lewis and Kilby, 2020). In coverage of the Scottish referendum, for example, presentation of the Yes /…”

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Rapid Evidence Analysis of Diversity in UK Public Service Television: What Do We Know and What Should We Find Out?

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Moss

2024

Journal of British Cinema and Television

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This article reports the results of a rapid evidence analysis (REA) of academic research focused on diversity in UK public service television broadcasting, published between 2016 and 2021. The aim of the REA was to establish the scale and quality of academic research on diversity in the context of public service television production, representation and reception, as well as to understand trends in research and gaps in knowledge that need to be addressed. The findings show that research is both sparse and fragmented. It is dominated by studies of on-screen diversity, rather than production or reception, and BBC content receives most attention, while other public service broadcasters are analysed much less frequently. In light of the findings, we propose a number of new directions for research, including a broader range of topics and methods and a more inclusive approach to the broadcast landscape. Analyses should facilitate an understanding of the impact of diversity across production, on-screen and among audiences, and adopt a longitudinal design, so that progress towards diversity over time can be evaluated.

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“…As shown in Chapters 4 and 5, the aggregate effect of the framing of the chicken meat production industry in newspaper coverage shapes the space of possibilities for subsequent action in ways that do not appear conducive to processes of accountability. When 'things just happen' but there is no attribution of responsibility for them, those in power and with responsibility are let off the hook, indicating a democratic deficit in which it is difficult for citizens to attribute responsibility due to news media's failure to inform audiences where power and responsibility lie (Cushion et al, 2020).…”

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Mind the gap : Newspapers as a forum for democratic public debate on food production

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Chapter 1| General introduction 1. Introduction 1.1. Problem statement 2. Theoretical background 2.1. A set of normative expectations for news media 2.2. Conceptualising the role of media in democratic public debate 2.3. Framing as analytical tool 2.4. The conceptual framework 3. Methodological approach and thesis outline 3.1. Research design 3.2. Data collection and analysis 3.3. Outline of the thesis Chapter 2 | The chick diffusion: How newspapers fail to meet normative expectations regarding their democratic role in public debate Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Literature review 2.1. Conceptualising newspapers as a forum for public debate 2.2. Normative expectations of newspapers 2.3. Between structural and actor-oriented approaches 2.4. Framing as tool for the analysis of public debate 3. Methods 3.1. Case selection 3.2. Data collection 3.3. Operationalisation of analytical framework 3.4. Framing analysis 4. Results 4.1. Frequency and distribution of issues 4.2. Co-occurrence of issues 4.3. Systemic contestation 4.4. Structural problematization 4.5. Structural shift 5. Discussion Chapter 3 | Something wicked this way comes: How well did UK newspapers support the public debate of Avian Influenza as a wicked problem? Abstract 1. Introduction 2. Background 2.1. Avian flu as a wicked problem 2.2. Framing 2.3. Expectations 3. Materials and methods 3.1. Data collection and curation 3.2. Framing analysis 3.3. Operationalisation of expectations 4. Results 4.1. Expectation 1: Connecting the dots 4.2. Expectation 2: Systemic contestation 4.3. Expectation 3: Structural problematisation 4.4. Expectation 4: Coverage that supports an opening up of the public debate 5. Discussion Chapter 4 | Not liable: How newspapers fail to provide the foundations needed to support a forum for accountability Abstract 1 12 1 "Revealed: the dirty secret of the UK's poultry industry. " The Guardian. July 23, 2014.

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Why context, relevance and repetition matter in news reporting: Interpreting the United Kingdom’s political information environment

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

‘Rooting’ the BBC: An interview with Rhodri Talfan Davies, Director of BBC Nations

‘Rooting’ the BBC: An interview with Rhodri Talfan Davies, Director of BBC Nations

Rapid Evidence Analysis of Diversity in UK Public Service Television: What Do We Know and What Should We Find Out?

Mind the gap : Newspapers as a forum for democratic public debate on food production

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