Recent decades have seen major changes to the local media environment in the United States, with the absorption of many …

quality when its reports conform to the consumer's prior expectations. We use this fact to build a model of media bias in …

This chapter investigates how media coverage filters information and how this affects political accountability and … policy. I first present a baseline model of media coverage and its effect on political accountability. The model is used to … discuss the welfare consequences of private provision of news. It shows how media regulation and public broadcasting may …

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 …

This paper provides a model of how media environments affect political polarization. We first develop a model of how … media environments, characterized by their levels of accessibility and variety of content, interact with citizens … which politicians react to those media-influenced views. We show how equilibrium polarization is affected by changes in the …

We employ several different approaches to estimate the political position of Australian media outlets, relative to … then estimate slant by using the number of mentions that each public intellectual receives in each media outlet. Second, we … media are quite centrist, with very few outlets being statistically distinguishable from the middle of Australian politics …

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

This chapter overviews the empirical literature on the determinants and the consequences of media capture, i.e., the … situation in which governments or other interest groups try to control the content of media outlets. We start by examining the … evidence on the effect of media capture on the content of media outlets. Then we discuss the methods governments and other …

This chapter studies situations where media sources deliberately deviate from truthful reporting in order to manipulate … electoral outcomes. Media capture occurs when the government actively attempts to influence the media industry. We instead speak … of media power when news organizations engage in biased reporting for political reasons. Existing theories identify …

In this chapter we survey the empirical literature on media bias, with a focus on partisan and ideological biases …. First, we discuss the methods used to measure the relative positions of media outlets. We divide bias into two categories … media outlets with other actors, measures based on the intensity of media coverage, and measures based on tone. In the …