Media Coverage

Compared to two months earlier, an additional 3.5 million Ohioans hunkered down in April at the height of Gov. Mike DeWine’s 40-day stay-at-home order. After a week of slowly reopening the state economy, 80% of these people have left their homes, according to an Akron Beacon Journal and USA TODAY analysis of cellphone data compiled by SafeGraph, a third-party analytics firm.

The league wants to come back in July. Medical professionals say that’s possible—but have plenty of concerns about how it could happen. 

A team of UCD academics wants the State to incentivise companies to invest in anti-coronavirus safety measures, after a study suggested that businesses that spend to protect workers and customers are 20 per cent more likely to go bust.

Alabama, North Dakota, and South Carolina are the first states to publicly comment about using Apple and Google’s COVID-19 contact tracing technology, now available to public health agencies on both iOS and Android.

Is the reporting of media outlets biased in favor of firms that advertise with them? A new study looked at the relationship between advertising by car manufacturers in U.S. newspapers and news coverage of car safety recalls in the early 2000s. The study found that newspapers provided less coverage of recalls issued by manufacturers that advertised more regularly in their publications than of recalls issued by other manufacturers that did not advertise, and this occurred more frequently when the recalls involved more severe defects.