Media balance

State of British Media 2025: Reporting on muslims and Islam

Author / Creator: CENTRE FOR MEDIA MONITORING

Media type: Report

Date published: 2026

This report presents a comprehensive quantitative analysis of how British media covered Muslims and Islam throughout 2025


Discourse, Voice, and the Politics of Participation in the Scottish Independence Referendum

Author / Creator: Maike Dinger

Media type: Book

Date published: 2026

The media told a "one-dimensional" story and "ordinary people" were "hardly featured" in coverage of the 2014 independence referendum


Scotland’s Sustainable Media Future: Challenges and Opportunities: a Stakeholder Analysis

Author / Creator: Catherine Happer

Media type: Article

Date published: 2022

Scotland’s media are still firmly rooted in older conceptions of print and broadcasting


Is Scotland’s media ready for the next independence referendum?

Author / Creator: Catherine Happer

Media type: Report

Date published: 2022

"[Scotland's media is] an uncomfortable hybrid of UK-rooted media institutions and both established and emerging Scottish news titles with very different perspectives and priorities."


BBC bias and the Scots referendum - new report

Author / Creator: John Robertson

Media type: Article

Date published: 2014

Research on bias and fairness in news reporting on the issue Independence prior to the Scottish referendum, 2014