University of Chicago Economist Who Studies Media Receives Clark Medal

Matthew Gentzkow, an economics professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business who has done innovative work analyzing issues like bias in the press and the impact of the media on society, has been awarded the 2014 John Bates Clark Medal, the American Economic Association announced.

Bestowed by the association on the person it considers the top American economist under age 40, the Clark Medal is regarded as second only to the Nobel prize in the field and has often been a precursor to that honor. Gentzkow, 38, has used deeply researched, data-driven projects to examine what drives ideological biases in newspapers and how the Internet is remaking the traditional media landscape.