major German media outlets by analyzing tweets of German Members of Parliament (MPs) on Twitter. For each news outlet under … major media outlets from the USA and find that two outlets are positioned on the right, five are positioned on the left of …

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

investigated for criminal offenses from January 2012 to June 2017. We also construct an index of each outlet's media slant by …

In this study, we propose a novel approach to detect supply-side media bias, independent of external factors like … analysis into articles' transition to print and podcasts suggests that increased competition may reduce media bias, indicating …

; political economy ; mass media ; internet …This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity … in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony …

What are the political consequences of the diffusion of broadband internet? We address this question by studying the … 2008 US presidential election, the first political campaign where the internet played a key role. Drawing on data from the … FEC and the FCC, we provide robust evidence that internet penetration in US counties is associated with an increase in …

; congress ; banks ; big business ; media ; courts …

media. …

Since objective news coverage is vital to democracy, captured media can seriously distort collective decisions. The … options and derive information about those effects from the mass media. The media might however secretly collude with interest …, it is shown that an increase in the concentration of firm ownership makes the occurrence of media bias more likely …