Whose Messages Make the News on Climate?

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Rachel Wetts, Brown University

Version:  View help for Version V1

Name File Type Size Last Modified
Wetts_WhoseMessages_Dataset.dta application/x-stata 2.3 MB 05/13/2020 10:36:AM
Whose Messages_Against Climate Action_Over Time_By Newspaper.do text/x-stata-syntax 5 KB 05/13/2020 10:36:AM
Whose Messages_Main Results_Supp Tables 1-3.do text/x-stata-syntax 3.2 KB 05/13/2020 10:31:AM
Whose Messages_Robustness Checks.do text/x-stata-syntax 11.2 KB 05/13/2020 10:14:AM

Project Citation: 

Wetts, Rachel. Whose Messages Make the News on Climate? Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2020-05-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116561V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Database of press releases about climate change (~20% systematic sample from PR Newswire) from 1985 to 2013. Press releases are matched with publicly-available data about the size (employees, assets, and revenue) of the primary organization that produced the press release, taken from the OneSource, Business Source Complete, and GuideStar databases. Finally, press releases are matched with information on whether the press release was quoted or paraphrased in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, or USA Today from 1985 to 2014. These variables were generated by the author using the WCopyFind plagiarism-detection software.

For more details on sampling and inclusion/exclusion of press releases, see Wetts, Rachel, "Models and Morals: Elite-Oriented and Value-Neutral Discourse Dominates American Organizations' Framings of Climate Change," https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soz027

Scope of Project

Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1/1/1985 – 12/31/2013
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) observational data


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