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Welcome to º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ’s real-time news audit of the 2019 General Election, which is lifting the lid on what media coverage the political parties, their policies and MPs are securing each week.

Academics from the University’s Centre for Research in Communication and Culture have conducted news audits for every General Election since 1992.

The audit for 2019 is concentrating on the main news bulletins on BBC1, ITV, C4, C5 and Sky and all the main daily national newspapers. It will also collect data from the official Twitter accounts of the main political parties.

The reports provide commentary about the week’s coverage and systematic measurements of which politicians and parties received the most coverage, the proportion of negative and positive coverage of candidates and parties, which issues received greatest prominence and the amount of coverage given to the election.

Weekly reports will be released on this site each Monday, running right up to election day. Read about the methodology used for the reports.

Reports

Report 1: 7 November - 13 November 2019

The first in a series of weekly reports from the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ on UK wide television and print media reporting of the 2019 UK General Election.

Report 2: 7 November - 20 November 2019

The second in a series of weekly reports from the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ on UK wide television and print media reporting of the 2019 UK General Election.

Report 3: 7 November - 27 November 2019

The third in a series of weekly reports from the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ on UK wide television and print media reporting of the 2019 UK General Election.

Report 4: 7 November - 4 December 2019

The fourth in a series of weekly reports from the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ on UK wide television and print media reporting of the 2019 UK General Election.

Report 5: 7 November - 11 December 2019

The fifth in a series of weekly reports from the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ on UK wide television and print media reporting of the 2019 UK General Election.

Press releases

Press hostility to Labour reaches new levels in 2019 election campaign

Analysis by º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ shows newspaper negativity towards the Labour party reached its highest levels during the final week of the election campaign.
Jeremy Corbyn

Newspaper negativity towards Labour continues to intensify

Newspaper negativity towards Labour has continued to intensify throughout the course of the election campaign, the latest media audit report by º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ has found.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson

What about the environment?

Despite worldwide protests about climate change, the environment has barely featured in election media coverage, securing just two percent of all coded news themes in week three of the campaign.

Is this a brexit election?

Despite being one of the most talked about issues, media coverage around brexit has already waned in the second week of the election campaign.
Illustration of a newspaper stand

Lib Dems and women the lost voices in first week of media election coverage

A significant gender inequality across all media coverage, with women’s voices accounting for just a third of all quotation in TV news and a fifth of quotation in the national press.

The Election Headlines podcast

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