Diverting Attention: Media Coverage of Economic Conditions on Russian State-Controlled Television, 2003-2017

• In Event: Media and Information

Brief Overview

We analyze 15 years of nightly news broadcasts from a state-controlled television station in Russia, Channel One, to examine how the composition of pro-governmental news coverage changes in response to changing economic conditions.

Authors

• Quintin H. Beazer, Florida State University

• Charles Crabtree, Dartmouth College

• Holger Lutz Kern, Florida State University