Do Ads Influence Editors? Advertising and Bias in the Financial Media

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Advertising Expensive Mortgages (2016, background): “Reuter and Zitzewitz (2006) show that favorable advertisements in personal finance publications are positively correlated with mutual fund recommendations and receive higher subsequent fund flows.”
Who Writes the News? Corporate Press Releases During Merger Negotiations (2014, neutral): “…and Milyo, 2005), and that these biases tend to be slanted towards the customers of the media outlet (Mullainathan and Shleifer, 2005; Gentzkow and Shapiro, 2006, 2010), the media firm’s advertisers (Reuter and Zitzewitz, 2006; Gurun and Butler, 2010), or governments (Besley and Prat, 2006).”
Does the Stock Market Fully Value Intangibles? Employee Satisfaction and Equity Prices (2011, methodology): “The returns Rit are calculated over three di¤erent benchmarks.”
Do expert reviews really drive demand? Evidence from a German car magazine (2015, background): “As a result, the literature on recommendations of financial products is significantly larger than on media products and food (see Sirri and Tufano, 1998; Jain and Wu, 2000; Cronquist, 2006; and Reuter and Zitzewitz, 2006).”
Persuasion: Empirical Evidence (2010, neutral): “Reuter & Zitzewitz (2006) show that financial magazines that depend heavily on advertising from mutual funds appear to bias their reviews of funds in favor of their advertisers.”