On Public (Mis)Perceptions: Policy Information in the News

• In Event: Old Media, New Media, and Policy Information

Brief Overview

This paper develops an approach for tracking coverage of policy change, and implements it across millions of news articles, capturing over four decades of media coverage of defense, welfare, health and education spending in the US.

Authors

• Stuart Soroka, University of Michigan

• Christopher Wlezien, The University of Texas at Austin