Journalists exhibit ideological bias in the news they choose to cover

• In Event: CwC Experiments and Political Elites: Inequality and Bias in Politics

Brief Overview

Using a large scale survey of journalist combined with an audit study, we show that political journalists are more likely to express interest in covering candidates who share their ideology and that these effects are not driven by readership demands.

Authors

• Hans J.G. Hassell, Florida State University

• John Boschen Holbein, University of Virginia

• Matthew Miles, Brigham Young University-Idaho