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

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 …

We review the theoretical literature on market determinants of media bias. We present a theoretical framework that …

In democracies voters rely on media outlets to learn about politically salient issues. This raises an important … 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 …

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

-coded news items from 2001 through 2012. For our econometric analysis, we use panel regressions with media and time fixed effects … can be seen as a purely exogenous event. Focusing on the entire media set, we find robust empirical results for an anti …-government bias in media reporting: Under Republican presidents, political coverage tends to be more liberal, whereas it tends to be …

We study the strategic interaction between candidates to office and the print media, exploring the following tension …: while the media is instrumental for candidates to communicate with voters, candidates and media outlets have conflicting … preferences over the contents of media reporting. We propose a model of bipartisan races where candidates make decisions over the …

communication between an uninformed voter and a media outlet that knows the quality of two competing candidates. The alternatives …

We establish the existence of strong media slant against foreign owners. Using a unique data set from nation …