The revenge of expert sources in Election 2019
Prominent in this election has been a posse of mostly younger, social-media savvy academics who inject their analysis directly into the bloodstream – Twitter, that is – and thus more or less straight into journalists’ brains
Why election coverage neglects climate change
The stories that are easiest to launch in newsrooms are those that have a combination of novelty and conflict making climate change a tough sell.
Four things to watch in the media’s 2019 election coverage
Exploring four issues that will shape media coverage of the 2019 election campaign as it begins- initial impressions of party campaign launches, how public opinion polls are reported, the activity of trolls and bots and the stealth campaigns underway in the background.