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The Quality & Independence of British Journalism

This report was published by MediaWise on 1 February 2008 as part of the Journalism and Public Trust project.

The research was completed by Professor Justin Lewis, Dr. Andrew Williams, Professor Bob Franklin, Dr. James Thomas and Nick Mosdell at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, and the findings underpin Nick Davies' critique of journalism Flat Earth News.

The research was funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.

Contents

  • Summary
  • Introduction
  • Section 1: Employment, workload and profitability
  • Section 2: A content analysis of the independence of domestic news reporting
  • Section 3: Case studies
  • Section 4: How newsworthy is PR generated material?
  • Section 5: The view from the newsroom
  • References
  • Appendix
  • Endnotes

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