Research
Our past research on impartiality
2025
Cushion, S. and Kyriakidou, M. 2025. Countering Misinformation in Political Reporting: Enhancing Journalistic Legitimacy. Edinburgh University Press.
2024
Morani, M., Hughes, C., Cushion, S. and Kyriakidou, M. 2024. Why media platforms police the boundaries of impartiality: a comparative analysis of television news and fact-checking in the UK. Journalism. 10.1177/14648849241273599
Sambrook, R. and Cushion, S. 2024. Impartiality in public broadcasting. The Political Quarterly 95(1), pp. 48-55. 10.1111/1467-923X.13340
2023
Kyriakidou, M., Morani, M., Cushion, S. and Hughes, C. 2023. Audience understandings of disinformation: navigating news media through a prism of pragmatic scepticism. Journalism 24(11), pp. 2379-2396. 10.1177/14648849221114244
Kyriakidou, M., Cushion, S., Hughes, C., & Morani, M. (2022). Questioning fact-checking in the fight against disinformation: An audience perspective. Journalism Practice, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2022.2097118
Hughes, C., Morani, M., Cushion, S. & Kyriakidou, M. (2023). Does the political context shape how “due impartiality” is interpreted? An analysis of BBC reporting of the 2019 UK and 2020 US election campaigns. Journalism Studies. 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2173956
Soo, N., Morani, M., Kyriakidou, M. and Cushion, S. 2023. Reflecting party agendas, challenging claims: An analysis of editorial judgements and fact-checking journalism during the 2019 UK general election campaign. Journalism Studies 24(4), pp. 460-478. 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2169190
2022
Horowitz, M., Cushion, S., Dragomir, M., Gutiérrez Manjón, S. and Pantti, M. 2022. A framework for assessing the role of public service media organizations in countering disinformation. Digital Journalism 10(5), pp. 843-865. 10.1080/21670811.2021.1987948
Cushion, S., Morani, M., Kyriakidou, M. and Soo, N. 2022. Why media systems matter: A fact-checking study of UK television news during the Coronavirus pandemic. Digital Journalism 10(5), pp. 698-716. 10.1080/21670811.2021.1965490
2021
Walsh, M. and Cushion, S. 2021. Channel 4 News: impartial, independent and informative. In: Tait, R. and Mair, J. eds. What Price Channel 4 Now?. Abramis.
2019
Lewis, J. and Cushion, S. 2019. Think tanks, television news and impartiality: The ideological balance of sources in BBC programming. Journalism Studies, 20(4), pp. 480-499. 10.1080/1461670X.2017.1389295
2018
Cushion, S. 2018. Using public opinion to serve journalistic narratives: Rethinking vox pops and live two-way reporting in five UK election campaigns (2009-2017). European Journal of Communication 33(6), pp. 639-656. 10.1177/0267323118793779
Cushion, S. and Beckett, C. 2018. Campaign coverage and editorial judgements: broadcasting. In: Cowley, P. and Kavanagh, D. eds. The British General Election of 2017. Springer, pp. 323-346. 10.1007/978-3-319-95936-8_13
Cushion, S. and Thomas, R. 2018. Reporting elections: Rethinking the logic of campaign coverage. Contemporary Political Communication. Polity.
Cushion, S., Kilby, A., Thomas, R., Morani, M. and Sambrook, R. J. 2018. Newspapers, impartiality and television news: intermedia agenda-setting during the 2015 UK general election campaign. Journalism Studies 19(2), pp. 162-181. 10.1080/1461670X.2016.1171163
2017
Cushion, S., Lewis, J. and Callaghan, R. 2017. Data journalism, impartiality and statistical claims: towards more independent scrutiny in news reporting. Journalism Practice 11(10), pp. 1198-1215. 10.1080/17512786.2016.1256789
Cushion, S. and Lewis, J. 2017. Impartiality, statistical tit-for tats and the construction of balance: UK television news reporting of the 2016 EU referendum campaign. European Journal of Communication 32(3), pp. 208-223. 10.1177/0267323117695736
Cushion, S. and Thomas, R. 2017. From quantitative precision to qualitative judgements: professional perspectives about the impartiality of television news during the 2015 UK General Election. Journalism 20(3), pp. 392-409. 10.1177/1464884916685909
2016
Cushion, S., Thomas, R., Kilby, A., Morani, M. and Sambrook, R. J. 2016. Interpreting the media logic behind editorial decisions: Television News Coverage of the 2015 U.K. General Election Campaign. International Journal of Press/Politics 21(4), pp. 472-489. 10.1177/1940161216664726
2015
Cushion, S., Thomas, R. and Ellis, O. 2015. Interpreting UKIP's 'earthquake' in British politics: UK television news coverage of the 2009 and 2014 EU election campaigns. The Political Quarterly 86(2), pp. 314-322. 10.1111/1467-923X.12169
Cushion, S., Thomas, R. and Ellis, O. 2015. The mediatization of second-order elections and party launches: UK television news reporting of the 2014 European Union campaign. International Journal of Communication, 9, pp. 1523-1543.
2013
Cushion, S. 2013. Assessing, measuring and applying ‘public value tests’ beyond new media: Interpreting impartiality and plurality in debates about journalism standards. In: Barkho, L. ed. From Theory to Practice: How to Assess and Apply Impartiality in News and Current Affairs. Chicago: Chicago University Press, pp. 49-68.
2012
Cushion, S., Lewis, J. M. W. and Ramsay, G. N. 2012. The impact of interventionist regulation in reshaping news agendas: A comparative analysis of public and commercially funded television journalism. Journalism 13(7), pp. 831-849. 10.1177/1464884911431536
2010
Garcia-Blanco, I. and Cushion, S. 2010. A partial Europe without citizens or EU-level political institutions: How far can Euronews constitute a European public sphere?. Journalism Studies, 11(3), pp. 393-411. 10.1080/14616700903378653
Cushion, S., Lewis, J. M. W. and Ramsay, G. 2010. Four nations impartiality review follow-up: An analysis of reporting devolution. Project Report. [Online]. London: BBC Trust Publications. Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/our_work/services/television/other/nations_follow_up.html
2009
Cushion, S., Lewis, J. M. W. and Groves, C. R. 2009. Prioritizing hand-shaking over policy-making: A study of how the 2007 devolved elections was reported on BBC UK network coverage. Cyfrwng: Media Wales Journal, 6, pp. 7-32.
Cushion, S. and Lewis, J. M. W. 2009. Towards a 'Foxification' of 24-hour news channels in Britain?: An analysis of market-driven and publicly funded news coverage. Journalism 10(2), pp. 131-153. 10.1177/1464884908100598
