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Local Newspaper Coverage of the Presidency

Department of Political Science, University of North Texas, P.O. Box 305340, 1121 Union Circle, Denton, TX 76203-5340, mes{at}unt.edu

Scholarly research says much about national news coverage of the presidency. But there has been little exploration into local news coverage of the presidency, with much research focusing on presidential campaigns or a small subset of presidential news, his local visits. Based on a sample of 288 stories taken from 1995 of the Bill Clinton and 2003 of the George W. Bush administrations, I answer the following questions: What explains the amount of local newspaper coverage of the presidency and what influences the likelihood that local newspapers will cover the presidency, daily? Support for the president, corporate ownership, newspaper resources, and the location of the story itself affect the amount of local newspaper coverage of the president and the likelihood that a newspaper will publish a story on the presidency.

Key Words: presidency • media • local news • newspapers • amount • coverage

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