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SMU SOE Seminar Series (April 9, 2025): The Media and Foreign Powers: Does Market Access Matter for News Reporting?

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TOPIC:

THE MEDIA AND FOREIGN POWERS: DOES MARKET ACCESS MATTER FOR NEWS REPORTING?

ABSTRACT

Does news media coverage of autocracies hinge on their relationship with those regimes? Exploiting a large-scale media crackdown in May 2019 in China, in which multiple influential UK- and US-based news sites were blocked, we find that news outlets adopted a more negative tone in their coverage of China and reported more frequently on sensitive topics such as human rights, after being blocked, compared to those with no access change. Such effects are absent in news on economic topics and opinion articles. We investigate several mechanisms underlying these findings, including reduced self-censorship, diminished journalistic resources, and changes in readership composition after losing access.

Keywords: Media, Authoritarian Regime, Market Access, Word Embedding, Topic Modeling, Computational Linguistics

JEL: L82, L88, F69, P00.

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PRESENTER

Li Han
ESSEC Business School

RESEARCH FIELDS

Development Economics
Political Economy

DATE:

9 April 2025 (Wednesday)

TIME:

4pm - 5.30pm

VENUE:

Meeting Room 5.1, Level 5
School of Economics
Singapore Management University
90 Stamford Road
Singapore 178903

 
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