All the President’s Papers: Broadband Roll-Out and the Nationalization of Local News

• In Event: JSS SESSION: Content and Effects of Partisan Media

Brief Overview

I merge together bi-annual data on the roll-out of broadband from the years 1999-2008 to national data on newspaper circulation, content, and staffing to show how expanding communication infrastructure eroded the local news environment.

Author

• Marc James Trussler, Washington University