Percentage Point Difference Between Population Share (2020) and Share of Articles about Group
Source: Notes: In 2020, 40 percent of Californians were Latino, 18 percent were AAPI, and 7 percent were Black. In Arizona, 31 percent of the population was Latino, 5 percent was AAPI, and 6 percent was Black. In Nevada, 29 percent of the population was Latino, 12 percent was AAPI, and 12 percent was Black.
Sources: Authors’ analysis of 13 million English-language daily newspaper articles published in the United States from March 2020 to October 2023 that contain the terms “COVID*” and a group label, searched in Newsbank Inc.’s Access World News full-text database of news sources. Population share data is from the 2020 Decennial Census, available online.