The most thorough examination of bias in the mainstream media remains Nick Davies' book Flat-Earth News, 2008, along with his sister publication Hack Attack, 2014. In the latter book, Davies describes his own experience in uncovering the phone-hacking scandal that started in the last century and generated mass awareness with the Milly Dowler revelations in 2011.  We refer you to the Wikipedia entries for these two books.

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We also suggest reading Alan Rusbridger's book Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now, 2018. Rusbridger was Editor-in-Chief at the Guardian between 1995 and 2015, a period when technological change, notably the development of the internet, was upending the fundamentals of journalism, and when the Guardian supported a series of ground-breaking investigations'

 

There follows Jonathan Coulter's report on the Media Reform Coalition's conference on 200 Years of the Guardian, 2021, in which he sought to understand why this high-minded newspaper, functioning under the non-profit Scott Trust, had apparently betrayed its core principles and commitment to the sanctity of facts. 

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Media bias and misreporting have been particularly evident as regards Israel and Palestine. We present a powerful analysis of bias in reporting about Gaza from the Centre for Media Monitoring (March 2024), and a compendium of information of BBC bias since the beginning of the 21st century.