The media has an incentive to publish sensational news. We study how this incentive affects the accuracy of media coverage in the context of merger rumors. Using a novel dataset, we find that accuracy is predicted by a journalist's experience, specialized education, and industry expertise....

"Coronavirus News, Markets and AI explores the analysis of unstructured data from coronavirus related news and the underlying sentiment during its real-time impact on the world and on global financial markets, in particular. In an age where information, both real and fake, travels in the blink...