Recent decades have seen major changes to the local media environment in the United States, with the absorption of many …

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

-coded news items from 2001 through 2012. For our econometric analysis, we use panel regressions with media and time fixed effects … can be seen as a purely exogenous event. Focusing on the entire media set, we find robust empirical results for an anti …-government bias in media reporting: Under Republican presidents, political coverage tends to be more liberal, whereas it tends to be …

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

This chapter studies situations where media sources deliberately deviate from truthful reporting in order to manipulate … electoral outcomes. Media capture occurs when the government actively attempts to influence the media industry. We instead speak … of media power when news organizations engage in biased reporting for political reasons. Existing theories identify …

We review the theoretical literature on market determinants of media bias. We present a theoretical framework that …

We establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation …