Newspapers have faced extreme challenges in recent years due to declining circulation and
advertising revenue. This has resulted in newspaper closures, staff cuts, and dramatic …

In recent decades, turnout in US presidential elections has soared, education levels have hit
historic highs, and the internet has made information more accessible than ever. Yet over …

We present the first longitudinal evidence that declining local political news coverage is
reducing citizen engagement. Drawing on a content analysis of more than 10,000 stories …

We investigate how access to local government information affects turnout in municipal
elections. We hypothesize that the availability of news focused on local public affairs in an …

We propose a two-stage process to explain the relationship between the local news
environment and citizen engagement. Our original content analysis of newspaper coverage …

We use new data on entries and exits of US daily newspapers from 1869 to 2004 to estimate
effects on political participation, party vote shares, and electoral competitiveness. Our …

In recent years, local media in the US have faced increasing economic precarity, and many
newspapers have been purchased by hedge funds and private equity firms. How do …

Political observers have extensively documented the national media's focus on committee
and party leaders. Legislators' local coverage, in contrast, remains largely unexplored and …

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 …

Has the decline in traditional sources of local news contributed to the nationalization of US
elections? I hypothesize that local news coverage mitigates nationalization by providing …