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Conversations on COVID: Is all pandemic news really bad news?
Molly Cook, a junior at Brown, participated in a research project that found that major American news outlets took a more negative tone in their COVID-19 coverage than international news outlets or scientific journals.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – Molly Cook didn’t know exactly what would come of her Summer 2020 research assistantship – but she certainly never expected it would make national headlines.
Cook, a junior concentrating in economics and applied mathematics at Brown University, spent the warmer months of 2020 working virtually with Dartmouth College economist Bruce Sacerdote and Dartmouth undergraduate student Ranjan Sehgal on a timely research question: Why does all American COVID-19 news seem like bad news? And is media coverage equally negative elsewhere in the world?