An interactive look at 75 years of newspaper coverage shows that nearly every major-party presidential candidate has received net-negative coverage—but the gaps between candidates tell us something real about elections.

An interactive look at 75 years of newspaper coverage shows that nearly every major-party presidential candidate has received net-negative coverage—but the gaps between candidates tell us something real about elections.

The standard way political scientists measure media tone has a blind spot. We built a better method, and it changes what we know about how coverage shapes elections.
