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Impartiality of BBC business coverage

The BBC Trust has a particular responsibility for ensuring the BBC is impartial. This report looked at the BBC's business coverage.

The report of the independent panel, led by Sir Alan Budd, was published on 25 May 2007. The terms of reference for the review were:

"To assess the impartiality of BBC news and factual coverage of business with particular regard to accuracy, context, independence and bias, actual or perceived; to assess whether the BBC portrays a fair and balanced picture of the world of business and of its impact on society more generally; to focus primarily on business coverage in mainstream output though specialist business programming should also be considered; and to make recommendations to the BBC Trust for improvements where necessary."

The report and supporting documentation are listed below.

• Business impartiality report, PDF (129KB)
• Business impartiality report, text only (7.13KB)

• Appendix A – Blinc Partnership Audience Research Report, PDF (623KB)
• Appendix A – Blinc Partnership Audience Research Report, text only (107KB)

• Appendix B – Leeds University Content Analysis Report, PDF (185KB)
• Appendix B – Leeds University Content Analysis Report, text only (56.1KB)

• Appendix C – viewing and listening material, PDF (35.1KB)
• Appendix C – viewing and listening material, text only (6.53KB)

• Appendix D – organisations invited to submit evidence, PDF (23.1KB)
• Appendix D – organisations invited to submit evidence, text only (4.7KB)

• Appendix E – written evidence, PDF (345KB)
• Appendix E – written evidence, text only (87.4KB)

• Appendix F1 – BBC Journalism submission to the panel, PDF (192KB)
• Appendix F1 – BBC Journalism submission to the panel, text only (101KB)

• Appendix F2 – BBC News submission to the panel, PDF (54.1KB)
• Appendix F2 – BBC News submission to the panel, text only (17.6KB)

• Appendix G – Panel biographies, PDF (16.8KB)
• Appendix G – Panel biographies, text only (5.12KB)

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BBC management's response to the report

On 16 August 2007, the Trust published the BBC management's response to the impartiality of business coverage report, available below.

• BBC management's response, PDF (42.5KB)
• BBC management's response, text only (20.4KB)

BBC Governors' reviews

Details of the reports which were commissioned by the BBC Governors can be found on the BBC Governors' website.

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