Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the … day-to-day news coverage of Al-Qaeda on US television since 9/11 and the group's terrorist strikes. To isolate causality … framework. The results suggest a positive and statistically powerful effect of CNN, NBC, CBS, and Fox News coverage on …

Can media coverage of shooters encourage future mass shootings? We explore the link between the day-to-day prime time … television news coverage of shootings on ABC World News Tonight and subsequent mass shootings in the US from January 1, 2013 to …-10 days.At its mean, news coverage is suggested to cause approximately three mass shootings in the following week, which would …

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 …

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 …