Demand for Online News under Government Control
Journal: Knowledge@UChicago (University of Chicago)
Year: 2017

Anecdotal evidence suggests consumers navigate to news outlets that are government controlled (GC) and pro-government biased even in the presence of independent news outlets.Does this observation imply a demand for pro-government bias in the news?Or do consumers enjoy other aspects of GC news outlets such as quality and coverage of unbiased stories?To answer these questions, we examine consumers' demand in the Russian online news market.We use publication records of the top 48 online news outlet