impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to … that newspapers facilitated the dissemination of national news to local areas. In addition, text analysis on more than a … hundred small-town weekly newspapers from the 1840s shows that the improved access to news from Washington led newspapers to …

text data from local newspapers and a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that stories of sexual assaults by Black … Democratic newspapers only. …

limited to the first newspaper entering the market. -- newspapers ; media competition ; turnout ; political selection …This paper evaluates the effects of changes in the supply of news provided by newspapers on electoral participation … covering the presence of local news by different types of newspapers (i.e., local and national) for all cities above 15 …

's 2019 federal election. These findings shed light on the role of partisan media in shaping electoral outcomes by influencing …

estimate the effects of these protests on congressional election outcomes. In the South, we find that PPC protests led to …

recorded during the earthquake with European election results and social capital metrics. Our findings indicate that the …