We construct a new index of media slant that measures whether a news outlet's language is more similar to a … identity of a newspaper's owner explains far less of the variation in slant, and we find little evidence that media …

attacks to media signal coverage and schooling in Kenya. Exploiting geographical and temporal variation in wireless signal … coverage and attacks, we establish that media access reinforces negative effects of terrorism on schooling. These effects are … confirmed when we instrument both media signal and the incidence of attacks. For households with media access, we also find a …

This article sheds light on the impact of the media on economists' expectations for future economic developments. We … conducted a worldwide economic expert survey and find that the media provides most economists with valuable information that … countries with authoritarian regimes. Moreover, the experts estimate the influence of the media remarkably higher on others than …

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 …