Media Standards Trust

Pew Center survey that finds Americans increasingly critical and disenchanted with mainstream news organisations. People who use the internet as their main source of news are particularly critical of...

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

August 2007

Keywords: news, trust, bias, inaccuracy, US

Global survey of trust in the media amongst 10,230 adults in 10 countries conducted by Globescan. Key findings include that more people trust the media than their governments - except in US & UK (both...

Source: BBC, BBC, Reuters, Media Center

May-06

Keywords: Trust, independence

Will Wyatt's independent investigation into the events surrounding the publication by the BBC of misleading footage about the Queen in a promotional video. The terms of reference for the investigation...

Source: BBC, Will Wyatt

October 2007

Keywords: BBC, The Queen, investigation

Survey conducted from September 28 through November 7 2007, to get a sense of the conditions journalists have faced trying to cover the Iraq war over the last couple of years. It includes responses fr...

Source: Project for Excellence in Journalism, PEJ

November 28 2007

Keywords: Iraq war, reporting, PEJ

Few studies captured the pace of change in the media in 2007 as well as OFCOM’s 2007 UK Communications Market report. Nestled amongst the statistics tracking the growth of broadband take-up, the satur...

Source: Media Standards Trust, MST

December 2007

Keywords: media, research, 2007

74 page discussion document from Ofcom about the future of broadcast news. It is not a policy or proposals document. It 'examines the environment in which television news currently operates' and how t...

Source: OFCOM, John Glover

July 2007

Keywords: OFCOM, news, future, BBC

Responses to the consultation document 'New News, Future News' released by OFCOM in July. Responses fall into: - Issues surrounding plurality of news - The economic sustainability of news - Concerns ...

Source: OFCOM, Ofcom

October 2007

Keywords: news, future, plurality, PSB, sustainability

'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

81 page report commissioned by the BBC Trust intended to 'design a set of principles of impartiality in a forward looking way'. It's central argument is that impartiality has shifted from a 'seesaw' ...

Source: BBC, John Bridcut

June 2007

Keywords: Impartiality, balance, context, BBC

This, the fourth of OFCOM's annual reports about trends and developments in media and communications, contains an enormous amount of information showing how much - and how quickly - the media and comm...

Source: OFCOM, OFCOM

August 2007

Keywords: media, communications, trends, future

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 commissioned by the BBC that attempts to 'move forward' debate about the value of news to commercial public service broadcasting channels (ITV, Channel 4 & Channel 5). It questions the idea th...

Source: Human Capital, Matt Ashworth & Simon Terrington

June 2007

Keywords: Public Service Broadcasting, news, commercial channels

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

Summary review of 7 month investigation into use of premium rate interactive services in ITV programming. Review covers more than 60 ITV series and finds 'serious or concerning issues' in three progr...

Source: Deloitte, Deloitte & Touche LLP

October 2007

Keywords: ITV, interactive services

Full text of Alan Rusbridger's speech on Why Journalism Matters - second in Media Standards Trust series

Source: Media Standards Trust, Alan Rusbridger

22nd July 2009

Keywords: Alan Rusbridger, text, speech, Why Journalism Matters

Full text of Lionel Barber's speech on Why Journalism Matters - first in Media Standards Trust series

Source: Media Standards Trust, Lionel Barber

15th July 2009

Keywords: Lionel Barber, text, speech, Why Journalism Matters