Directing Attention During Sensitive Times: Agenda-Setting on Russian State-Controlled Television 2003-2018

• In Event: Information Manipulation in Authoritarian Regimes

Brief Overview

In this paper, we analyze 15 years of news broadcasts from a state-controlled television in Russia, Channel One, to examine how the composition of state-run news coverage changes in response to upcoming elections and changing economic conditions.

Authors

• Charles Crabtree, Dartmouth College

• Holger Lutz Kern, Florida State University