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British Public Service Broadcasting, the EU and Brexit
Journalism Studies, Volume: 22, Issue: 15, Pages: 2082 - 2102
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This paper analyses the historic role of Britain's major public service broadcaster, the BBC, in reporting the European Union. To do this it combines a content analysis of two datasets of BBC broadcast and online coverage from 2007 and 2012 with a series of semi-structured interviews conducted...
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