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We study the agenda-setting political behavior of a large sample of U.S. newspapers during the last decade, and the behavior of smaller samples for longer time periods. Our purpose is to examine the intensity of coverage of economic issues as a function of the underlying economic conditions and...
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daily newspapers in the US. We find that, in their capacity as newspaper consumers, members of each group benefits …
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This paper shows that the move to offset printing from letterpress in the U.S. daily newspaper publishing industry was … the adoption was determined, at least in part, at the firm rather than the newspaper level, although, on the whole …, newspaper chains adopted neither earlier nor later than non-chain newspapers. Ceteris paribus, adoption occurred more quickly in …
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and lower chances of newspaper exit. However, the composition of news shifts away from local governance, the number of …
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This paper shows how to remove attenuation bias in regression analyses due to measurement error in historical data for a given variable of interest by using a secondary measure which can be easily generated from digitized newspapers. We provide three methods for using this secondary variable to...
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We propose an approach to measuring the state of the economy via textual analysis of business news. From the full text of 800,000 Wall Street Journal articles for 1984-2017, we estimate a topic model that summarizes business news into interpretable topical themes and quantifies the proportion of...
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. We estimate a model of newspaper demand that incorporates slant explicitly, estimate the slant that would be chosen if … identity of a newspaper's owner explains far less of the variation in slant. We also present evidence on the role of pressure … from incumbent politicians, tastes of reporters, and newspaper competition in determining slant …
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nineteenth century U.S. newspapers were often public relations tools funded by politicians, and newspaper independence was a … rarity. The newspaper industry underwent fundamental changes between 1870 and 1920 as the press became more informative and … informative press was the result of increased scale and competitiveness in the newspaper industry caused by technological progress …
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competitors. We formulate a model of newspaper demand, entry, and political affiliation choice in which newspapers compete for … novel data on newspaper circulation, costs, and revenues. The estimated model implies that competition enhances ideological …
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A war-related factor model derived from textual analysis of media news reports explains the cross section of expected asset returns. Using a semi-supervised topic model to extract discourse topics from 7,000,000 New York Times stories spanning 160 years, the war factor predicts the cross section...
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