What News? Provision of Different Types of News in the U.S. News Media

• In Event: Political Communication: Methods

Brief Overview

In this paper, we use a support vector machine classifier to estimate what proportion of news media content is about public affairs, and what proportion is about soft news like cooking, sports, travel, and movie reviews.

Authors

• Gaurav Sood, Unaffiliated

• Daniel Weitzel, University of Texas at Austin