Post by Teddy Bear on Mar 1, 2014 21:51:33 GMT
A new website worth keeping an eye on that in their words:
Newswatch monitors public service broadcast programmes to examine whether – as required by law - they deliver impartiality and political balance. Our focus has been some of the most politically controversial areas of public policy such as the EU, immigration and climate change. We work by logging, transcribing and analysing representative programmes such as BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. By necessity, this is a detailed and very thorough process that over the past 15 years has involved the line-by-line analysis of millions of words and the writing of dozens of detailed reports, most of which are archived and accessible through the site. Newswatch was founded and is is run by media professionals with extensive direct experience of the issues that face a busy newsroom. The principal is David Keighley, who is a former newspaper and BBC journalist. He was the senior publicist of BBC news and current affairs programmes before joining the breakfast television company TV-am, where he was director of public affairs for almost a decade. He subsequently ran his own consultancy business with clients that included news broadcasters across the world. He was also the originator of the world’s first international conference and marketplace for news broadcasters which ran annually. The senior researcher is Andrew Jubb, who has 15 years' experience of tracking, transcribing and analysing broadcast output.