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Reporting statistics, Detecting iPlayer use, The New European

Why the 大象传媒 needs to do more to help audiences make sense of statistics, The New European newspaper is to continue, and could the 大象传媒 detect people watching iPlayer?

The 大象传媒 Trust has published an independent impartiality review looking at the 大象传媒's reporting of statistics in its news and current affairs. It's found that the 大象传媒 needs to do more to challenge conventional wisdom and misleading claims, help audiences understand the weight of evidence, and be braver in interpreting and explaining rival statistics. We speak to independent author of the report and former UK National Statistician Dame Jil Matheson. Plus, FT columnist Tim Harford and investigative journalist Heather Brooke discuss the rise of data journalism and the skills journalists now need to make sense of stats.

The New European, a pop up 'Remain' newspaper, has extended its publication run. Initially published for four weeks following the Brexit decision, the 拢2 weekly will continue for at least another 4 weeks. Distributed in London, the south of England, Manchester and Liverpool, it's seeing a circulation around the 30,000s, and will be published in Northern Ireland from Friday. Steve Hewlett speaks to Matt Kelly, Chief content officer for Archant and launch editor of the paper about how and why it's selling, when some other papers are failing after a matter of weeks.

As of September 1st, the 大象传媒 will require those viewers watching 大象传媒 iPlayer programmes on catch-up to have a TV licence. Newspaper reports this week suggested the 大象传媒 could deploy a new generation of Wi-Fi detection vans to identify people illicitly watching its programmes online. Steve Hewlett speaks to former Editor in Chief of MacUser Magazine Adam Banks about whether technology exists to actually do this, and whether privacy laws would ever allow such detection.

Producer: Katy Takatsuki.

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30 minutes

Chapters

  • Reporting Statistics

    FT Columnist Tim Harford; Professor Heather Brooke of City University, Dame Jill Matheson

    Duration: 15:20

  • iplayer Detection

    Adam Banks, technology journalist and former Editor in Chief of Mac User magazine.

    Duration: 05:32

  • The New European

    Matt Kelly, chief content officer for Archant and editor of the New European

    Duration: 06:08

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  • Wed 10 Aug 2016 16:30

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