What is the role of the media in coordinating and mobilizing insurgency against a foreign military occupation? We …

We investigate the existence of an "electoral cycle bias" in the timing of media coverage of news with high political …

access only to friendly media outlets and denying access to critical ones. While an incumbent prefers positive bias, granting … gatekeeping can induce a quid pro quo relationship: media provides coverage with positive bias in exchange of future access …, thereby affecting electoral outcomes in favor of incompetent incumbents. The degree of access media enjoy increases with …

The spread of propaganda, misinformation, and biased narratives from autocratic regimes, especially on social media, is …

internet searches as well as proprietary data on county-level average daily travel distance and visits to non …

This paper provides a model of the market for news where profit-maximizing media outlets choose their editors from a … population of rational citizens. The analysis identifies a novel mechanism of media bias: the bias in a media outlet's news … optimal to acquire information from a media outlet whose editor has similar ideological preferences. Depending on the …