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

This paper develops a new insight enabling the empirical study of media capture: minority shareholders of newspapers …

We study the impact of the first American party committed to redistribution from rich to poor on anti-Black media …

years. This paper provides a new method to estimate media bias using a structural topic model and cosine similarity to test … assumption that a) potential media bias is demand-driven and b) election results can be used as a proxy for reader beliefs, the …

predominantly observable in state elections, though attacks that receive high media coverage increase the AfD vote share in Federal … migration. Exploiting news reports, we find that successful attacks receive more media coverage from local and regional …

Free, independent and hard-hitting media can play an important role in curbing corruption. Media in Uganda has enjoyed … considerable freedom in this regard since Museveni came to power in 1986. The evolving power structure and a changing media … landscape, however, have presented both challenges and opportunities for media’s watchdog role on corruption. This paper will …

How do the media affect public support for democratic institutions in a fragile democracy? What role do they play in a …