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Does presidential leadership of the news through press conferences extend to both television and newspaper coverage? Presidents speak directly to reporters during their press conferences, and it is likely that both newspapers and television news cover them. Despite important differences between television and newspaper coverage of politics, however, we do not know whether newspapers and television cover the president's press conferences, how this coverage differs, and what these differences mean for presidential leadership of the news. Theoretically, journalistic professionalism and the profit incentive of news media predict that newspapers and television will cover press conferences, particularly those held in Washington, DC Using plagiarism detection software to create similarity scores between the text of the president's press conference and subsequent news coverage, I find that although both media cover press conferences, newspapers devote much more coverage to primetime conferences, a finding that has important implications for the president's leadership of the news media.

The purpose of this article is to examine the partisan slant of cable news coverage of the unemployment rate and the impact presidential speeches have on this coverage. I examine coverage of the monthly release of the unemployment rate from September 2005 through April 2015 for programs on all three major cable networks: The Situation Room, Special Report, and Hardball. Although the partisan leaning of these sources may affect coverage, presidents may be able to influence unemployment news coverage if the news reports the president's speeches. Using Lexicoder to content analyze the amount and tone of coverage, the findings reveal evidence of both partisan slant and presidential leadership of news coverage through speeches.

"Going Public and Presidential Leadership" published on by Oxford University Press.