How the Media Economy Drives Political News | Science of Politics
This week, we bring you an episode from the Science of Politics podcast, hosted by Matt Grossmann.
The Democracy Group · Matt Grossman
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Show Notes
Local news is losing out to online, nationalized, and more polarized outlets. How do the economics of news production and the contributors who write it affect the political content that Americans see? Nikki Usher finds that local newspapers are losing staff, but declines are not concentrated in Red small towns. Nick Hagar finds that contributors to online media are an insular group, with conservative outlets disconnected from the rest. Both the producers of news and their dominant consumers are unrepresentative–that’s changing the content and style of news.
Guests: Nikki Usher, University of Illinois; Nick Hagar, Northwestern University
Studies: News for the Rich, White, and Blue and “Writer Movements Between News Outlets Reflect Political Polarization in Media”
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