Measuring Demand for Accessible Public Interest News

• In Event: Media Trust, Demand for News, and Political Participation

Brief Overview

An information board style experiment varies two features of news content that may appeal to disengaged audiences: accessibility and public interest content. We estimate heterogeneity in preferences using behavioral and self-report measures.

Authors

• Emily A. Thorson, Syracuse University

• Andrew Trexler, University of Wisconsin–Madison