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±«Óătv Trust seminar on impartiality and the ±«Óătv's Arts coverage

On 23 June 2014, the ±«Óătv Trust held the third in its series of impartiality seminars, this time focusing on the ±«Óătv's Arts coverage.

An invited audience including ±«Óătv staff and external interested guests and speakers discussed a range of subjects related to impartiality and the ±«Óătv’s Arts coverage. ±«Óătv Trustee for England and Chair of the Trust’s Editorial Standards Committee, Alison Hastings, has written on the discussion that took place and a full list of attendees has also been published below.

The Trust’s impartiality seminars were first introduced in 2011 to strengthen the Trust’s work in ensuring that the ±«Óătv’s standards of impartiality were being met.

Unlike the existing impartiality reviews carried out by the Trust, they are not based on reviews of ±«Óătv output. Instead they facilitate a discussion to enable the ±«Óătv to consider how to approach current and topical issues, which pose difficulties for programme makers, with due impartiality.