Local daily newspapers historically played an important role in U.S. democracy by providing citizens with information … about local policy issues. In recent decades, local newspapers have struggled to compete with new online platforms. In the …

a given variable of interest by using a secondary measure which can be easily generated from digitized newspapers. We …

has trended upwards over the past century. Finally, and excluding U.S. jumps, leading newspapers attribute one-third of …

We use new data on entries and exits of US daily newspapers from 1869 to 2004 to estimate effects on political … events and allows for the possibility of confounding trends. We find that newspapers have a robust positive effect on … recent years. We find no evidence that partisan newspapers affect party vote shares, with confidence intervals that rule out …

newspapers - even underdogs such as the Post, which had a circulation of just 27,000 when it closed - can have a substantial and …

We analyze the coverage of U.S. political scandals by U.S. newspapers during the past decade. Using automatic keyword …-based searches we collected data on 35 scandals and approximately 200 newspapers. We find that Democratic-leaning newspapers -- i … involving Republican politicians than scandals involving Democratic politicians, while Republican-leaning newspapers tend to do …