We study the strategic interaction between candidates to office and the print media, exploring the following tension …: while the media is instrumental for candidates to communicate with voters, candidates and media outlets have conflicting … preferences over the contents of media reporting. We propose a model of bipartisan races where candidates make decisions over the …

Media content is an important privately supplied public good. While it has been shown that contributions to a public … good crowd out other contributions in many cases, the issue has not been thoroughly studied for media markets yet. We show … that in a standard model of commercial media bias, qualities of media content are strategic complements, whereby …

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 …

our results to the problem of media censorship by a government. …

Media content is an important privately supplied public good. While it has been shown that contributions to a public … good crowd out other contributions in many cases, the issue has not been thoroughly studied for media markets yet. We show … that in a standard model of commercial media bias, qualities of media content are strategic complements, whereby …

We suggest a model of electoral competition between two parties which is extended by a third player : mass media. The … distance. By reporting with political bias, mass media has selective influence on the sensibility-coefficient of potential … number of non-voters. Parties being able to successfully communicate with mass media can manage to turn an unfavourable …

We develop a tractable theory to study the impact of biased media on election outcomes, voter turnout and welfare. News … released by media allows voters to infer the relative appeal of the two candidates, and the closeness of elections. In large … elections, the former determines the election outcome, whereas the latter drives voter turnout. With a single media outlet, a …

We suggest a model of electoral competition between two parties which is extended by a third player : mass media. The … distance. By reporting with political bias, mass media has selective influence on the sensibility-coefficient of potential … number of non-voters. Parties being able to successfully communicate with mass media can manage to turn an unfavourable …