Spain has a highly partisan media system, with newspapers reaching self-selected partisan
audiences and espousing explicitly partisan editorial preferences. Do the newspapers of the …

Spain's newspapers are characterised by strong partisan identities. We demonstrate that the
two leading newspapers nonetheless show powerful similarities in the topics of their …

The article studies whether and how negative campaigning is a successful strategy for
attaining media attention. It combines extensive content analyses of party and news texts …

During election campaigns political actors strategically choose issues to focus on. Besides
highlighting issues over which a party exerts issue ownership, they may also engage with …

News coverage of politicians is very unequally distributed: a few powerful politicians receive
the bulk of media attention, while the large majority hardly gets into the news. However, case …

Political parties have substantial influence on which issues the news media cover during
election campaigns, while the media have limited influence on party agendas. However, we …

Media outlets provide crucial inputs into the democratic process, yet they face increasingly
severe economic challenges. I study how a newly salient manifestation of this pressure …

I argue that the issue-handling reputations that underlie the theory of “issue ownership”
affect the favorability of news coverage toward US presidential candidates. A large-scale …

Integrating scholarship from several fields of study, this paper proposes a new model for
understanding how partisan bias operates and how to measure its effects. We chart the …

The news media's tendency to cover politics as a strategic game has long been a key
concern among many political communication scholars (see, eg, Cappella and Jamieson …