question: how strongly can media affect public perceptions? This paper uses a natural experiment – the staggered introduction … of the Digital TV signal in Italy – to measure the effect of media persuasion on the perceptions individuals hold. We … focus on crime perceptions and, combining channel-specific viewership and content data, we show that the reduced exposure to …

question: how strongly can media affect public perceptions? This paper uses a natural experiment – the staggered introduction … of the Digital TV signal in Italy – to measure the effect of media persuasion on the perceptions individuals hold. We … focus on crime perceptions and, combining channel-specific viewership and content data, we show that the reduced exposure to …

with detailed information on crime coverage from 12 newspapers. The data allow us to quantify the extent of pre-vote media … Muslim immigration and linked Islam with terrorism and violence. We combine an exhaustive violent crime detection dataset … municipalities. Exploiting random variations in crime occurrences, we find a first-order, positive effect of news coverage on …

This paper investigates the influence of media on the beliefs and perceptions individuals hold, with a focus on crime … represent crime news compared to others. We then test if individuals revise their perceptions about crime when exposure to news … natural experiment in the Italian television market where the staggered introduction of the digital TV signal led to a drastic …

We develop a model to study the political economy implications of information gatekeeping, i.e., a policy of granting … access improves her re-election probability only if coverage is sufficiently credible in the eyes of the public. Information …