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Filling a void: how BBC News Turkish is covering Turkey’s 24 June elections
Alper Balli
Planning Editor, BBC News Turkish
The media landscape is shifting in Turkey, with 90% of news media tilting towards being pro-government. Audiences are searching for different views, and for trusted sources and outlets. With this election there is a void in the mainstream media, and BBC News Turkish seems to be filling that void.
With good Grace: Katy Searle on Grace W Goldie, the woman who invented election broadcasting
Katy Searle
Editor, BBC Political Newsgathering
Katy Searle looks back at the work of Grace Wyndham Goldie, the first woman to host the election coverage on the BBC in 1950, and takes a wider look at the role of women in political news broadcasting 67 years on
BBC announces plans for General Election 2017 special programmes
Jonathan Munro
Head of BBC Newsgathering
Head of Newsgathering talks about the BBC's plans for debates and special coverage leading up to the General Election 2017
Looking ahead to the next prime ministerial debates
More than 22m people watched any of the three prime ministerial debates that took place in the run up to the election. It's hard to tell what kind of impact the debates had on voting behaviour - voter turnout was up on 2005 from 61.4% in 2005 to 65.1% - but it is clear that the debates engaged vi...
Planning the BBC's election coverage
Whilst in some ways it feels like the campaign has already started and the date has been announced, Westminster and the wider world are waiting with bated breath for the General Election to be formally called. Like the political parties, our preparation and planning will have been in developmen...
