The growing influence of internet platforms acting as content aggregators is one of the most
important challenges facing the media industry. We develop a simple model to understand …

The effects of partisan media on political knowledge are theoretically ambiguous.
Knowledge effects are important because of their close connection to welfare effects, but the …

Social media affects not only the way we consume news, but also the way news is produced,
including by traditional media outlets. In this paper, we study the propagation of information …

We examine the incentives of a monopolistic search engine, funded by advertising, to
provide reliable search results. We distinguish two types of search results: sponsored and …

We investigate the existence of an 'electoral cycle bias' in the timing of media coverage of
news with high political salience. In particular, we analyze how the electoral cycles at the …

We examine how placement of geo‐targeted local news links on Google News affected local
news consumption. Using a sample of news visits by 36,876 US households before and …

Aliaj, O., & Nicolaou, A.(2020, February 13). Miami Herald owner McClatchy files for
bankruptcy. The Financial Times. Retrieved from https://www. ft. com/content/6959b73a …

News media are widely recognized as a vital element for the health of modern democracies.
Despite the importance of promoting an efficient market for information, the economic …

Platforms have come under criticism from regulatory agencies, policymakers, and media
scholars for the unfettered spread of fake news online. A key concern is that, as fake news …

Legal professionals have access to many different sources of knowledge, including user-
generated Wikipedia articles that summarize previous judicial decisions (ie, precedents) …