Brian Burns

An eye-opening article courtesy of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University: In a recent study Rafael Di Tella (Harvard University) and Ignacio Franceschelli (Northwestern University) have found that in Argentina, where the Kirchner administration has a major hand in the financial fortunes of the major newspapers, the amount of advertising space purchased by the government had a direct influence on the proportion of negative government-related front page news published. Coincidence?