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 establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation …

Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the …

Can media coverage of shooters encourage future mass shootings? We explore the link between the day-to-day prime time …

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 …

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 …

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