
“The Determinants of Media Bias in China” by David Strömberg
Economics Seminar
Authors:
David Strömberg
Stockholm UniversityBei Qin
Yanhui Wu
We measure and investigate the determinants of political control of newspapers in China. We first determine what type of content characterizes politically controlled newspapers. We then analyze the effect of a reform to close down all county papers in 2003. The reduced competition significantly affected the political controls of the remaining papers.