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ACA - MEDIA is a novel dataset on the media coverage of academic researchers in economics, finance, and business in the United States between 2011 and 2020. The dataset includes the venue, date, the researcher covered, and their gender for 19,754 media mentions of 3,361 researchers. These media citations include discussions of research, expert commentaries on current news as well as personal profiles. We construct the data to facilitate empirical analysis of the determinants and effects of media coverage of academic research and researchers.