We employ several different approaches to estimate the political position of Australian media outlets, relative to … then estimate slant by using the number of mentions that each public intellectual receives in each media outlet. Second, we … media are quite centrist, with very few outlets being statistically distinguishable from the middle of Australian politics …

constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Combining data on campaign finance donations made by individuals and …

In democracies voters rely on media outlets to learn about politically salient issues. This raises an important … question: how strongly can media affect public perceptions? This paper uses a natural experiment - the staggered introduction … of the Digital TV signal in Italy - to measure the effect of media persuasion on the perceptions individuals hold. We …

We study the impact of the first American party committed to redistribution from rich to poor on anti-Black media …

We establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation …. -- media economics ; globalization ; economic xenophobia ; multi-national enterprises ; foreign direct investment …

This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012 …. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which … heightened media attention. Second, less attention is devoted to attacks in countries located further away from the US. Third …

-educational media content as a factor in the widening educational gender gap. Based on time-use data, we show that a possible …

attacks to media signal coverage and schooling in Kenya. Exploiting geographical and temporal variation in wireless signal … coverage and attacks, we establish that media access reinforces negative effects of terrorism on schooling. These effects are … confirmed when we instrument both media signal and the incidence of attacks. For households with media access, we also find a …

Do media slant news in favor of the banks they borrow from? We study how lending connections affect news coverage of … creditors. Our findings support the concern that financial distress and increased dependence on creditors may undermine media …