There's a New Gatekeeper in Town: How Statewide Public Affairs Television Creates the Potential for an Altered Media Model

Abstract

Research has documented the diminishing resources traditional media devote to coverage of state government even as state government has grown increasingly complex. That places statehouse reporters across the country in the position of having to do more with less. This study examines what use reporters are making of a new tool—statewide public affairs television—and what effect that has had on state government coverage.