subscriptions. However, empirical findings on the effectiveness of advertising messages in increasing people’s willingness to pay … (N = 815) to investigate the effects of different advertising messages on people’s willingness to pay for online news …

This paper investigates whether newspapers report more favorably about advertising corporate clients than about other … firms. Our identification strategy based on high-dimensional fixed effects and high frequency advertising data shows that … advertising leads to more positive press coverage. This advertising bias in reporting is found among local and national newspapers …