Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?
利用美国西班牙裔社区快速增长的现象，检验西班牙语地方电视新闻的出现是否提高了西班牙裔选民投票率，发现其投票率相对非西班牙裔提高了5到10个百分点。
In the past decade Americans have increasingly turned their attention to nonlocal information sources, raising concerns about disengagement from local communities. Regulation sometimes seeks to curtail the integration of media markets through the promotion of “localism.” This paper examines the role of local media. We make use of the rapid growth of Hispanic communities in the United States to test whether the presence of local television news affects local civic behavior. We find that Hispanic voter turnout increased by 5 to 10 percentage points, relative to non-Hispanic turnout, in markets where Spanish-language local television news became available.