Introduction / Laura Basu, Steve Schifferes and Sophie Knowles -- The UK experience. The UK news media and austerity: trends since the global financial crisis / Steve Schifferes and Sophie Knowles -- Media amnesia and the crisis / Laura Basu -- Austerity, the media and the UK public / Mike Berry...

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of tables; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Introduction: the media as messenger; Part I The UK experience; 1 The UK news media and austerity: trends since the global financial crisis; 2 Media amnesia and the crisis; 3...

Do media slant news in favor of the banks they borrow from? We study how lending connections affect news coverage of banks earnings reports and of the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis on major newspapers from several European countries. We find that newspapers cover announcements by their lenders...