The Information Economy

Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Nov. 27–Dec. 2)

The stories that most interested us this week.         The Senate approved the Republican tax bill last night following a series of last-minute amendments, paving the way...

Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Nov. 18–26)

The stories that most interested us this week.       The New York Times reports on the ongoing turmoil at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and...

Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Nov. 10–17)

The stories that most interested us this week.     The bribery trial of US Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) ended in a mistrial after the jury was not able...

Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Nov. 3–10)

The stories that most interested us this week.   Following reports that the Justice Department might force AT&T to sell Time Warner’s CNN as a...

Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Oct. 26–Nov. 2)

  The stories that most interested us this week.   Following a tough week for the world’s dominant digital platforms, Barry Lynn and Matt Stoller of the...

Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Oct. 19–26)

The first edition of our weekly news briefing.     ProMarket Issues in the Media "CVS Health is in Talks to Buy Aetna" (Wall Street Journal)    “Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to...

ProMarket Expands Editorial Board

Three new board members bring political science firepower to advance Stigler’s mission to understand how states and markets interact. ProMarket, the blog of the Stigler...

NYC Journalists, Join Us for an Info Session on the Stigler Center’s Journalists in Residence Program

To mark the JIR program’s second year, we will hold an informational session at NYU’s Torch Club in New York on September 19.     Earlier this...

The Stigler Center’s Mediapart Case Study Now Available in French

The Stigler Center's case study focuses on the success of the French online news website and explores the economics of media companies in the face of...

Can Investigative Journalism Overcome the Rational Ignorance of Voters?

In the third and final part of our interview with Stanford economist James Hamilton, we discuss the connection between investigative journalism, human interest stories...

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