Introduction

Abstract

This chapter motivates and summarizes my research to reveal bias in news articles. Section 1.1 highlights the issues caused by slanted news coverage. The importance of these issues cannot be overestimated as systematically biased coverage has already exerted influence on societal decisions, such as in democratic elections. Section 1.2 then briefly summarizes the research gap regarding the identification and communication of media bias. I take the issues caused by bias and the research gap in revealing bias as a motivation to define my research question and derive respective research tasks in Sect. 1.3. Lastly, Sect. 1.4 summarizes the contributions of this thesis and gives an overview of its structure and the integrated publications.