quality when its reports conform to the consumer's prior expectations. We use this fact to build a model of media bias in …

years. This paper provides a new method to estimate media bias using a structural topic model and cosine similarity to test … assumption that a) potential media bias is demand-driven and b) election results can be used as a proxy for reader beliefs, the …

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 …

This paper explores the role of mass media in people's perceptions of charismatic leaders, focusing on the case of … postal service. The major findings are: (1) the frequency of exposure to mass media is positively related to the support for …

This contribution introduces a new direct measure of political media bias by analyzing articles and newscasts with … respect to the tonality on political parties and politicians. On this basis we develop an index sorting the media in the … political left to right spectrum. We apply the index to opinion-leading media in Germany, analysing 7,203,351 reports on …

with detailed information on crime coverage from 12 newspapers. The data allow us to quantify the extent of pre-vote media …

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 …