Local News in a Social Capital Capital Sixteen Years Later

• In Event: All About Local Media

Brief Overview

In this paper, we present analysis of local television news coverage in four presidential election years--2000, 2004, 2008 and 2016--in the Minneapolis/St. Paul DMA in order to assess changes in local news coverage of campaigns over time.

Authors

• Barbara Allen, Carleton College

• Bjorn Tofteland Holtey, Independent Researcher

• Daniel Peter Stevens, University of Exeter