Myers, C. Daniel2022-07-052022-07-052022-07-05https://hdl.handle.net/11299/228217In both datasets, each observation is a newspaper article published on the front page of one of the national or local newspapers. Description of variables is in the PoliticsOrPublicHealthCodebookReplication.pdf document. The three "COVID Concern from Civiqs" files recording the estimated percentage of Democrats and Republicans who expressed various levels of concern about the pandemic on each date from February 25, 2020 until June 14, 2020, as well as the partisan gap in the percent expressing extreme or moderate concern. See ReadMe.txt file for more information.Media scholars have long expressed concern that news outlets’ tendency to frame policy debates in terms of partisan conflict or political gamesmanship tends to politicize and polarize public opinion. This tendency may be particularly problematic with new, highly salient issues like the COVID-19 pandemic during its earliest stages. To evaluate the degree to which coverage of the pandemic in its first months was framed in partisan terms we analyze the content of COVID-19 related articles published on the front page of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and a random sample of local newspapers between February 21 and May 15, 2020.CC0 1.0 UniversalDatasethttps://doi.org/10.13020/wsmw-jp95