Handbook of Media Economics, vol 1A

CHAPTER 9

Newspapers and Magazines

Ambarish Chandra*

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, Ulrich Kaiser

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Department of Management, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Department of Business Administration, Chair for Entrepreneurship, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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Centre for European Economic Research, Mannheim, Germany

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Centre for Industrial Economics at the University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany

Contents

9.1. Introduction 398

9.2. An Overview of the Print Media Industry 401

9.2.1 A Short History of Newspapers 401

9.2.2 Partisanship in Print Media 403

9.2.3 Newspapers and the Electoral Process 404

9.2.4 Stylized ...