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British Public Service Broadcasting, the EU and Brexit

Mike Berry, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Inaki Garcia-Blanco, Lucy Bennett, Joe Cable Orcid Logo

Journalism Studies, Volume: 22, Issue: 15, Pages: 2082 - 2102

Swansea University Author: Joe Cable Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/1461670x.2021.1981154

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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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ISSN: 1461-670X 1469-9699
Published: Informa UK Limited 2021
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