Stadelmann, David; Thomas, Tobias; Zakharov, Nikita - 2023
This paper examines the impact of outdoor temperature on media bias. We use 12 years of daily hand-coded data on the … local daily high temperatures to estimate the effect of heat on media bias in news reporting about the Republican and … 1°C increment in daily maximum temperature on a hot day (>25°C) leads to a 20% increase in the media bias measured as …