Media Standards Trust

Sub titled 'the pot calling the kettle black' this short piece by Jim McNamara argues that 'the media need to adopt a less self-righteous approach [towards PR] and recognise their own manifold corrupt...

Source: CARMA, CARMA International

2002

Keywords: PR, ethics, media

Study of US media coverage of corporate America and Wall Street - in the wake of a series of high profile fraud cases and corporate collapses. 750 articles reviewed: few showed balance, most depicted ...

Source: CARMA, CARMA International

Nov-02

Keywords: business, PR, influence

Semi academic paper (9 pages long) by Jim Macnamara about the impact of public relations on the media. No bespoke research but a number of studies cited. Notes that the majority of public relations ac...

Source: CARMA, CARMA International

2002

Keywords: PR, ethics, media

Content analysis of the coverage of 6 disasters (from February 2003 to October 2005) by 64 different news outlets in 9 countries (mainly European, US & Australian). Key findings: 'western self-interes...

Source: CARMA, CARMA International

Jan-06

Keywords: western media, ethics, accuracy, disasters, PR

Siobhan Daly and Jude Howell's report examines the role of civil society in tackling growing concerns about the democratic deficit. It concludes with a series of questions about new and emerging aspec...

Source: Carnegie UK Trust, Carnegie UK Trust

Jun-06

Keywords: democracy, citizenship, religion, social enterprise

CEBR summary report for CIPR containing short articles by figures within public relations. Records that there are 48,000 professionals in PR in the UK and that it has a £6.5bn annual turnover.

Source: CEBR, Centre for Economics and Business Research

Nov-05

Keywords: PR industry, PR

Think piece in which Kirsty Milne argues the press, in concert with sections of the public, now 'manufactures dissent'. This shift to single-issue, press backed campaigns illustrates a move towards to...

Source: Demos, Demos

2005

Keywords: press, protest,

James Wilsdon and Rebecca Willis pamphlet (71 pages) offers practical guidance about 'upstream engagement' for scientists, policy-makers, research councils, businesses and NGOs. They argue that 'only ...

Source: Demos, Demos

2004

Keywords: science, press coverage, public engagement

440 page report by Perri 6 split into 4 parts: private life, drivers of change, futures of privacy and private life, privacy policy conflicts and viable conflicts (includes chapters on 'The media & th...

Source: Demos, Demos

1998

Keywords: privacy, freedom of the press, data protection, ethics

Five essays assessing the impact of the web on the 2005 UK election. Contributions include: Stephen Coleman on the need to use the internet for dialogue, not broadcast; Lusoll and Ward on who was onli...

Source: Hansard, Hansard Society

Jul-05

Keywords: Internet, government spin, PR, democracy, blogs, technology

'We live in a surveillance society'. So starts this report commissioned by the Information Commissioner (and conducted by the Surveillance Studies Network) which details the full extent to which the U...

Source: Office of the Information Commissioner, Office of the Information Commissioner

2006

Keywords: surveillance, privacy, information commissioner

128 page report edited by Andrea Millwood Hargrave examining attitudes to multicultural broadcasting by the audience and by practitioners (qualitative research and online survey). Multicultural audien...

Source: ITC, ITC

Nov-02

Keywords: television, radio, multicultural, representation, ethnic minorities, advertising

30th annual survey asking viewers their opinions about television. Includes chapters on programme standards (59% thought they had not changed), sources of news (TV the primary source for 84%), and imp...

Source: ITC, ITC

2000

Keywords: television, public view, technology, viewing habits, programme standards, offence, sources, impartiality, regulation

32nd annual survey of public attitudes to television. Includes findings that 74% of people think the purpose of broadcasting regulation is to protect children and young people; 47% said programmes had...

Source: ITC, ITC

2002

Keywords: television, public view, technology, viewing habits, programme standards, offence, sources, impartiality, regulation

David Morrison and Michael Svennevig's 126 page report includes interviews, focus groups and an NOP survey. Its aims are to find out what the media and the public understand by 'public interest' and '...

Source: ITC, ITC

Mar-02

Keywords: PSB, privacy, taste & decency, public view, the public good, news values

Recommendations from MediaWise to DCMS committee regarding press intrusions to privacy. Include: establish human rights commission, consult journalists and public on code of practice, media ombudsman,...

Source: MediaWise, Media Wise

Feb-03

Keywords: privacy, complaints, corrections, accuracy, compensation, ombudsman, regulation, human rights

Source: MediaWise, Media Wise

Jun-05

Keywords: Refugees, Asylum seekers, representation, fairness, accuracy

An audit of the benefits and costs of digital switchover from the viewer's perspective. Issues for viewers fall into 5 categories: availability of services, awareness and understanding of switchover o...

Source: OFCOM, Ofcom

Jul-06

Keywords: digital switchover, viewer priorities, television

This research explores attitudes to pre-watershed viewing in the context of other types of potential media influences on children and young people. Main findings - respondents were more worried about ...

Source: OFCOM, Ofcom

Sep-05

Keywords: Children, protection, regulation, parental control

Source: OFCOM, Ofcom

Sep-05

Keywords: Production, television

Academic research paper discussing some of the major issues surrounding trust in e-commerce. Defines the concept of trust and explores some trust-enhancing strategies. Concludes with future research p...

Source: Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford Internet Institute

Apr-03

Keywords: trust, identity, privacy, economics

Exploring idea of trust on the internet, based on findings of Oxford Internet Institute's 2003 survey. Study shows wide variations in cybertrust. Experience tends to increase trust, except when it gen...

Source: Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford Internet Institute

Oct-03

Keywords: Trust, internet, technology, privacy

Executive summary of the PEJ's influential State of the News Media annual report. 2006 findings include: seismic transformation in what and how people learn about the world around them, power moving a...

Source: Project for Excellence in Journalism, Project for Excellence in Journalism

Jun-05

Keywords: Press, Internet, blogs, network TV, public views, radio, ethnic minorities, news investment,

Survey amongst 1,464 Americans shows public becoming more critical of the press, although still favourable to news organisations overall. One third of all Americans under 40 cite the internet as their...

Source: Pew Center for Press & People, Pew Research Centre for People and Press

Jun-05

Keywords: Online news, print news, Internet, payment

'A Race to the Bottom: Privacy Ranking of Internet Service Companies' is an interim report from the campaigning research organisation Privacy International, grading major internet companies according ...

Source: Privacy International, Privacy International

June 2006

Keywords: Privacy, Privacy International, Google

In Britain there is currently a battle engaged around the point at which freedom of information and expression meet the right to the protection of private life. Yet neither ‘private life’ nor ‘public ...

Source: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Stephen Whittle and Glenda Cooper

17th July 2009

Keywords: Privacy, Public interest, Human Rights Act, New media

Richard Ayre's report into the use of premium rate phone services (PRS) by television broadcasters, commissioned by OFCOM in the wake of numerous significant transgressions. Ayre points to a systemic...

Source: OFCOM, Richard Ayre

July 2007

Keywords: Premium Phone Services, PRS, TV

This survey records the disturbing number of journalists killed or imprisoned in 2006 and criticises democratic governments for their lack of action. More than 110 journalists were killed, the highest...

Source: Reporters Sans Frontieres, RSF

2007

Keywords: journalists, killed, imprisoned, freedom of expression, freedom of the press

From IPPR: "There are now many calls for the reform of the Press Complaints Commission, for a rethink about how best to protect personal privacy, whilst paying sufficient regard to the importance of f...

Source: IPPR, Institute for Public Policy Research

Feb-02

Keywords: privacy, journalism, human rights

Review by 11 MPs, chaired by Mr John Whittingdale, of the state of self-regulation of the press - triggered by imprisonment of Clive Goodman (News of the World) for phone-tapping, the evidence provide...

Source: Culture, Media & Sport Committee, Culture, Media & Sport Committee

July 2007

Keywords: self-regulation, PCC, press, privacy

Discussion paper assessing the current state of the children's television market and the prospect of future delivery of original content for children. The paper is supposed to act as the basis from w...

Source: OFCOM, Ofcom

October 2007

Keywords: children's tv, television, OFCOM, original programming

Report by Cardiff University's School of Journalism analysing the quantity of public relations material and news agency copy within news output, measuring the changing number of journalists employed b...

Source: Cardiff School of Journalism, Justin Lewis, Bob Franklin, Andrew Williams, James Thomas, Nick Mosdell

February 2008

Keywords: Cardiff, public relations, pr

Attitudes of young people towards anti-social behaviour and media representation. Based on a Youthnet/BYC survey completed by 757 12-25 year olds from the UK. Report finds that: - 98% of young people...

Source: YouthNet, YouthNet & the British Youth Council

July 2006

Keywords: Young people, media, representation, anti-social behaviour