Gender Bias in the Media? An Examination of Local Television News Coverage of Male and Female House Candidates

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 877-910 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Lavery
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Local Television ◽  
Local Television News ◽  
The Media

scholarly journals The effect of big-city news on rural America during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (36) ◽  
pp. 22009-22014
Author(s):  
Eunji Kim ◽  
Michael E. Shepherd ◽  
Joshua D. Clinton
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Local News ◽  
Rural Residents ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Local Television ◽  
Local Television News ◽  
Big City ◽  
Media Markets ◽  
Survey Responses

Can “urban-centric” local television news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic affect the behavior of rural residents with lived experiences so different from their “local” news coverage? Leveraging quasi-random geographic variation in media markets for 771 matched rural counties, we show that rural residents are more likely to practice social distancing if they live in a media market that is more impacted by COVID-19. Individual-level survey responses from residents of these counties confirm county-level behavioral differences and help attribute the differences we identify to differences in local television news coverage—self-reported differences only exist among respondents who prefer watching local news, and there are no differences in media usage or consumption across media markets. Although important for showing the ability of local television news to affect behavior despite urban–rural differences, the media-related effects we identify are at most half the size of the differences related to partisan differences.

Local News, Information, and the Nationalization of U.S. Elections

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
DANIEL J. MOSKOWITZ
Keyword(s):  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Local News ◽  
Local Television ◽  
Local Television News ◽  
Media Markets

Has the decline in traditional sources of local news contributed to the nationalization of U.S. elections? I hypothesize that local news coverage mitigates nationalization by providing voters with information that allows them to assess down-ballot candidates separately from their national, partisan assessment. The geography of media markets places some voters in a neighboring state’s market and others in in-state markets. I demonstrate that residents of in-state markets have access to vastly more local television news coverage of their governor and U.S. senators, and this increased coverage translates into greater knowledge of these officeholders. Further, access to in-state television news substantially increases split-ticket voting in gubernatorial and senatorial races. Supplementary analyses provide strong evidence that the estimated effects are not the result of unobserved differences between residents of in-state and out-of-state media markets. These results imply that local news coverage attenuates the nationalization of elections even in the present polarized context.

scholarly journals Does Local Television News Coverage Cultivate Fatalistic Beliefs About Cancer Prevention?

2010 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Niederdeppe ◽  
Erika Franklin Fowler ◽  
Kenneth Goldstein ◽  
James Pribble
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Prevention ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Local Television ◽  
Local Television News

scholarly journals Local Television News Coverage of the Affordable Care Act: Emphasizing Politics Over Consumer Information

2017 ◽  
Vol 107 (5) ◽  
pp. 687-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Gollust ◽  
Laura M. Baum ◽  
Jeff Niederdeppe ◽  
Colleen L. Barry ◽  
Erika Franklin Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Consumer Information ◽  
Local Television ◽  
Local Television News ◽  
The Affordable Care Act
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