Reuters/Jim Young - Members of U.S. President Barack Obama's cabinet applaud as Obama (L) speaks during his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington.
Paper | Issues in Governance Studies
Who Makes the News? Cabinet Visibility from 1897 to 2006
November 2011, Christopher J. Deering and Lee Sigelman
What determines the amount of press coverage that cabinet officers receive? Does cabinet position matter, and do cataclysmic events shine a brighter light on some positions? Christopher Deering and Lee Sigleman examine these questions by analyzing New York Times coverage of 357 cabinet officers from 1897 to 2006.