major German media outlets by analyzing tweets of German Members of Parliament (MPs) on Twitter. For each news outlet under …We present a new measure for the political position of news outlets based on politicians' selective sharing of news … items. Politicians predominantly share news items that are in line with their political position, hence, one can infer the …

The importance of user-generated content is growing as media consumption is moving online; yet, investigations of media …

Using a unique dataset of 22.5 million news articles from the Dow Jones Newswires Archive, we perform an in depth real …, namely the FRED-MD dataset. Focusing on U.S. GDP, consumption and investment growth, our results suggest that the news data … contains information not captured by the hard economic indicators, and that the news-based data are particularly informative …

Looking at TV news viewership in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic using actual consumption data, we investigate … whether demand for national and local news depends on national or local epidemiological developments, as measured by the … both national news and, more surprisingly, local news responds to the national epidemiological developments rather than to …

How do the media affect public support for democratic institutions in a fragile democracy? What role do they play in a … the Weimar government introduced pro-government political news, the growth of Nazi popularity slowed down in areas with …

We propose a new method for measuring gender and ethnic stereotypes in news reports. By combining computer vision and … two. We apply this approach to over 2 million web articles published in the New York Times and Fox News between 2000 and … women and Hispanics are under-represented. We also document that news content perpetuates common stereotypes such as …

This paper explores the causal influence of media content on voting behavior. We exploit a natural experiment involving … notion that access to free media influences political attitudes and facilitates the consolidation of democracy. …

We construct a Hotelling-type model of two media providers, each of whom can issue fake and/or real news and each of … whom can invest in the debunking of their rival's fake news. The model assumes that consumers have an innate preference for … one provider or the other and value real news. However, that valuation varies according to their bias favoring one …

This study investigates the effects of variation in "congeniality" of news on Facebook user engagement (likes, shares …, and comments). We compile an original data set of Facebook posts by 84 German news outlets on politicians that were … investigated for criminal offenses from January 2012 to June 2017. We also construct an index of each outlet's media slant by …