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Economist Honored for Work on Media Slant

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Newspapers slant is influenced as much by reader preferences and bias as by the political identity of the newspaper. This is one of the research findings in a 2010 paper by Gentzkow and Shapiro. Gentzkow, a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, was given the 2014 John Bates Clark Medal by the American Economic Association.

Matthew Gentzkow, winner of the 2014 John Bates Clark Medal from the American Economics Association

04/17/2014

Gentzkow wins the medal for work at the intersection of politics, economics and big data. His 2010 paper with Shapiro explored the effects of political slant in media articles for economic issues and foud that the readers perceptions and preferences played a bigger part than the bias of the news source itself. For the first time politics, sociology and other disciplines are becoming part of groundbreaking research in the field.

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