This study explores differences in volume of coverage and thematic content between US print news and online media coverage for an emerging technology – nanotechnology. We found that while American print news media and Google News coverage of this emerging technology has peaked and started to decline, Google Blog Search coverage of nanotechnology is still growing. Additionally, our data show dis...

We examine the effect of media coverage on firm innovation. Using a comprehensive dataset of corporate news coverage from 2000 to 2009, we show that there is a negative relation between media coverage and firm innovation. Our identification tests suggest that the effect of media coverage on innovation is causal. We further find supports for two economic mechanisms underlying the negative innova...

In this work, we reveal the structure of global news coverage of disasters and its determinants by using a large-scale news coverage dataset collected by the GDELT (Global Data on Events, Location, and Tone) project that monitors news media in over 100 languages from the whole world. Significant variables in our hierarchical (mixed-effect) regression model, such as population, political stabili...

This paper estimates the effects of media coverage in organic food production and the National Organic Program on food purchases. Information from several independent data sources is complied into a unique data set that directly links national and local newspaper coverage to fluid milk consumption. An analysis of weekly store-level scanner data in a difference-in-differences approach suggests a...

Using the event-study methodology and multivariate regressions, this paper examines the intensity of media coverage, its determinants and its marginal effect on stock returns following chemical disasters. To do this, we build an original dataset of chemical explosions that occurred worldwide from 1990-2005. First, our results show that news coverage increases with the social and environmental c...

The news media play an important role in informing the public on current events. Yet it has been difficult to understand the comprehensiveness of news media coverage on an event and how the reactions that the coverage evokes may diverge, because this requires identifying the origin of an event and tracing the information all the way to individuals who consume the news. In this work, we pinpoint...

Even democracies endowed with the most active free press struggle to maintain diversity of news coverage. Consolidation and market forces may cause only a few dominant players to control the news cycle. Editorial policies may be biased by corporate ownership relations, narrowing news coverage and focus. To an increasing degree this problem also applies to social media news distribution, since i...