@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp10708,
            	author={Jetter, Michael},
            	title={Terrorism and the Media: The Effect of US Television Coverage on Al-Qaeda Attacks},
            	year={2017},
	month={Apr},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={10708},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10708},
	abstract={Can media coverage of a terrorist organization encourage their execution of further attacks? This paper analyzes the day-to-day news coverage of Al-Qaeda on US television since 9/11 and the group's terrorist strikes. To isolate causality, I use disaster deaths worldwide as an exogenous variation that crowds out Al-Qaeda coverage in an instrumental variable framework. The results suggest a positive and statistically powerful effect of CNN, NBC, CBS, and Fox News coverage on subsequent Al-Qaeda attacks. This result is robust to a battery of alternative estimations, extensions, and placebo regressions. One minute of Al-Qaeda coverage  in a 30-minute news segment causes approximately one attack in the upcoming week, equivalent to 4.9 casualties, on average.},
	keywords={media effects;media attention;Al-Qaeda;terrorism;9/11},
            }