This is a repository copy of Portraying Poverty: The Economics and Ethics of Factual Welfare Television. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/118888/ Version: Accepted Version Article: De Benedictis, S, Allen, K orcid.org/0000-0002-5583-8519 and Jensen, T (2017) Portraying Poverty: The Economics and Ethics of Factual Welfare Television. Cultural Sociology, 11 (3). pp. 337-358. ISSN 1749-9755 https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975517712132 © 2017, The Author(s). Published by SAGE Publications. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Cultural Sociology. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. Reuse Items deposited in White Rose Research Online are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved unless indicated otherwise. They may be downloaded and/or printed for private study, or other acts as permitted by national copyright laws. The publisher or other rights holders may allow further reproduction and re-use of the full text version. This is indicated by the licence information on the White Rose Research Online record for the item. Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing
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[email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Portraying poverty: The economics and ethics of Factual Welfare Television Authors: Sara De Benedictis, Kim Allen and Tracey Jensen Abstract Since 2013 there has been an explosion of a new genre of factual programming on British television that centres on the everyday lives of people claiming benefits.