Medien manipulieren. Aber die Medien ihrerseits sind ebenfalls leicht zu manipulieren, denn sie sind auf die von ihnen selbst kreierten einfachen Muster fixiert. Vor diesem Hintergrund kann nicht überraschen, wenn kritische, aufklärerische, abwägende Positionen einen schweren Stand haben....

News from Germany traces why Germans became interested in international communications around 1900 and how they sought to control it for the next 45 years. They used new communications technologies, like wireless and radio, and they used the central businesses of news supply - news agencies. An...

News media plays an important role in modern financial markets. In this paper, we analyse the role played by the news media in an historical financial market. Using The Times's coverage of companies listed on the London stock market between 1825 and 1870, we examine the determinants of media...

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...