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Catherine Happer, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Director, Glasgow University Media Group, University of Glasgow

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

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Amid some of the most challenging political and economic circumstances for decades, another even greater disruption to people in one part of the UK could be upon us soon. Liz Truss may have dismissed Scotland’s democratically elected leader as an “attention seeker”, but Nicola Sturgeon continues to claim she is entirely serious about putting a refreshed case for independence to her country next October.

Whether the people are ready is one question. But my colleagues and I, in our new report drawing on consultations with the media industries, government and regulatory bodies, are asking another: is Scotland’s media ready?

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