In numerous incidences, the news coverage of medical research has incited unjustified optimism or fear. The medical literature provides an archive of the scientific community's condemnation of these misleading reports, but little is known about how they are judged by newsmakers. This study explored science writers' reactions to a controversial New York Times story that inflated the hopes of tho...

A substantial proportion of American adults hold fatalistic beliefs about cancer prevention despite evidence that a large proportion of cancer deaths are preventable. Several scholars suggest that news media coverage is one source of these beliefs, but scant evidence has been brought to bear on this assertion. We report findings from two studies that assess the plausibility of the claim that lo...

BACKGROUND In the weeks following the first imported case of Ebola in the U. S. on September 29, 2014, coverage of the very limited outbreak dominated the news media, in a manner quite disproportionate to the actual threat to national public health; by the end of October, 2014, there were only four laboratory confirmed cases of Ebola in the entire nation. Public interest in these events was hig...

Intimate partner violence is a significant women's health issue. Since the news media can play a role in policy development, it is important to understand how newspapers have portrayed training and screening. The purpose of this study was to describe the frequency and nature of print news coverage of health issues related to partner violence, specifically, provider training and screening by hea...

BACKGROUND News media are key sources of information regarding tobacco issues, and help set the tobacco control policy agenda. We examined US news coverage of voluntarily smokefree restaurants and bars in locales without mandatory policies to understand how such initiatives are perceived. METHODS We searched three online media databases (Access World News, Lexis Nexis, and Proquest) for all n...

This paper combines a comprehensive sample of intraday firm-level news arrivals with high-frequency price movements of individual stocks, thereby decomposing daily stock returns into news-driven and non-news driven components. Consistent with prior literature, we find that non-news driven return precedes a reversal. For news-driven return, however, we find strong evidence of return continuation...

The four patent cases covered most extensively during 2016 involved either Apple or Samsung, a clear indication that most media coverage of patent infringement cases was focused on the mobile smartphone sector. To be more specific, the news coverage of patent infringement stories during 2016 was dominated by Samsung Electronics Co. v. Apple, the $399 million design patent case between Apple and...

The business press plays a significant role in distributing firm news to investors. We investigate the extent to which managers can influence their firm’s level of coverage in newswires and national newspapers, compared with the effects of fixed firm characteristics and the news content itself. We consider three choices under managerial control: press release timing, press wire service, and eas...

The relation between viewing television coverage of a mass disaster and the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is poorly understood. A cohort of New Yorkers without baseline probable PTSD (N=1787) was assessed 1 year following the September 11, 2001, attacks. The primary outcome was new-onset probable PTSD assessed through a validated scale, and the primary exposure was number ...

We show that the demand for news varies with the perceived affinity of the news organization to the consumer’s political preferences. In an experimental setting, conservatives and Republicans preferred to read news reports attributed to Fox News and to avoid news from CNN and NPR. Democrats and liberals exhibited exactly the opposite syndrome – dividing their attention equally between CNN and N...