The Ideology of Media Outlets

• In Event: Politicians and the Media

Brief Overview

Using a survey of local newspaper journalists and a latent variable model we estimate the ideological predisposition of 695 local US newspapers. Using this we find that newspaper ideology has a strong influence on article framing.

Authors

• Hans J.G. Hassell, Florida State University

• Matthew Miles, Brigham Young University-Idaho

• Kevin Reuning, Miami University