Broadcast General Election debates

Inquiry by the Communications and Digital Committee, 4 December 2013 to 4 December 2013. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Broadcast General Election Debates - Evidence Volume (6 March 2014)
2nd Report - Broadcast general election debates (13 May 2014)
Broadcast General Election Debates - ITV response (30 May 2014)
Broadcast General Election Debates - BBC response (2 June 2014)
Broadcast General Election Debates - Sky News response (2 June 2014)
Broadcast General Election Debates - Channel 4 response (4 June 2014)

11 February 2014: Ric Bailey, Chief Adviser - Politics, BBC; Michael Jermey, Director of News and Current Affairs, ITV; and John Ryley, Head of News, BSkyB
25 February 2014: Janet Brown, Executive Director for the Commission on Presidential Debates; Professor William Wheatley, Jr, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University, and former Executive Vice-President of NBC News; and Professor Alan Schroeder, School of Journalism, Northeastern University
11 March 2014: Dorothy Byrne, Head of News and Current Affairs, and Dan Brooke, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Channel 4; Professor Stewart Purvis, City University, London, and Phil Harding, media consultant and former Controller of Editorial Policy, BBC
18 March 2014: Professor Stephen Coleman, the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, and Tim Gardam, Chair, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, and Principal, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford