We examine the relative importance of accuracy concerns and belief confirmation motives in driving the demand for news …, left-wing biased, or unbiased way. We then measure demand for a newsletter covering articles from this outlet. Right …-wing voters strongly reduce their demand for left-wing biased news, but not for right-wing biased news. The reverse patterns hold …

only reduce their demand for biased news if the bias is inconsistent with their own political beliefs, suggesting a trade …We examine the relative importance of accuracy concerns and belief confirmation motives in driving the demand for news …, left-wing biased, or unbiased way. We then measure demand for a newsletter covering articles from this outlet. Respondents …

only reduce their demand for biased news if the bias is inconsistent with their own political beliefs, suggesting a trade …We examine the relative importance of accuracy concerns and belief confirmation motives in driving the demand for news …, left-wing biased, or unbiased way. We then measure demand for a newsletter covering articles from this outlet. Respondents …

effect generally improves the accuracy of consumer forecasts while the tone channel induces a media bias. …

In a large-scale online experiment with U.S. Democrats, we examine how the demand for a newsletter about an economic … relief plan changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for factchecking …-checking reduces demand among Democrats with strong ideological views and increases demand among ideologically moderate Democrats …

In a large-scale online experiment with U.S. Democrats, we examine how the demand for a newsletter about an economic … relief plan changes when the newsletter content is fact-checked. We first document an overall muted demand for fact …-checking reduces demand among Democrats with strong ideological views and increases demand among ideologically moderate Democrats …

bias on user-generated content platforms are rare. We develop a novel procedure to detect coverage bias - i.e., bias in the … disentangle coverage bias from unobserved heterogeneity between observations. We apply our procedure to Wikipedia and examine … whether it has a coverage bias in its biographies of German (and French) Members of Parliament (MPs). Our analysis reveals a …

contributes to the emerging field of media economics by studying how the demand side of the media market affects news production … coverage is likely to dominate positive news stories because of demand side effects. …