Metrics at Work Christin, Angele
2020, 2020-06-30, 2020.
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The starkly different ways that American and French online news companies respond to audience analytics and what this means for the future of news When the news moved online, journalists suddenly ...learned what their audiences actually liked, through algorithmic technologies that scrutinize web traffic and activity. Has this advent of audience metrics changed journalists' work practices and professional identities? In Metrics at Work, Angèle Christin documents the ways that journalists grapple with audience data in the form of clicks, and analyzes how new forms of clickbait journalism travel across national borders.Drawing on four years of fieldwork in web newsrooms in the United States and France, including more than one hundred interviews with journalists, Christin reveals many similarities among the media groups examined—their editorial goals, technological tools, and even office furniture. Yet she uncovers crucial and paradoxical differences in how American and French journalists understand audience analytics and how these affect the news produced in each country. American journalists routinely disregard traffic numbers and primarily rely on the opinion of their peers to define journalistic quality. Meanwhile, French journalists fixate on internet traffic and view these numbers as a sign of their resonance in the public sphere. Christin offers cultural and historical explanations for these disparities, arguing that distinct journalistic traditions structure how journalists make sense of digital measurements in the two countries.Contrary to the popular belief that analytics and algorithms are globally homogenizing forces, Metrics at Work shows that computational technologies can have surprisingly divergent ramifications for work and organizations worldwide.
As cash-strapped metropolitan newspapers struggle to maintain their
traditional influence and quality reporting, large national and
international outlets have pivoted to serving readers who can and
...will choose to pay for news, skewing coverage toward a wealthy,
white, and liberal audience. Amid rampant inequality and distrust,
media outlets have become more out of touch with the democracy they
purport to serve. How did journalism end up in such a predicament,
and what are the prospects for achieving a more equitable future?
In News for the Rich, White, and Blue , Nikki Usher recasts
the challenges facing journalism in terms of place, power, and
inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of field research, she
illuminates how journalists decide what becomes news and how news
organizations strategize about the future. Usher shows how
newsrooms remain places of power, largely white institutions
growing more elite as journalists confront a shrinking job market.
She details how Google, Facebook, and the digital-advertising
ecosystem have wreaked havoc on the economic model for quality
journalism, leaving local news to suffer. Usher also highlights how
the handful of likely survivors-well-funded media outlets such as
the New York Times -increasingly appeal to a global,
"placeless" reader. News for the Rich, White, and Blue
concludes with a series of provocative recommendations to reimagine
journalism to ensure its resiliency and its ability to speak to a
diverse set of issues and readers.
There is no doubt, journalism faces challenging times. Since the turn of the millennium, the financial health of the news industry is failing, mainstream audiences are on the decline, and ...professional authority, credibility and autonomy are eroding. The outlook is bleak and it's understandable that many are pessimistic. But this book argues that we have to rethink journalism fundamentally.
Rather than just focus on the symptoms of the 'crisis of journalism', this collection tries to understand the structural transformation journalism is undergoing. It explores how the news media attempts to combat decreasing levels of trust, how emerging forms of news affect the established journalistic field, and how participatory culture creates new dialogues between journalists and audiences. Crucially, it does not treat these developments as distinct transformations. Instead, it considers how their interrelation accounts for both the tribulations of the news media and the need for contemporary journalism to redefine itself.
Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt and Charles Dickens all worked as parliamentary reporters, but their experiences in the press gallery have not received much scrutiny. Nikki ...Hessell's study is the first work to consider all four of these canonical writers as gallery reporters, providing a detailed picture of this intriguing episode in their careers. Hessell challenges preconceived notions about the role that emergent literary genius played in their success as reporters, arguing instead that they were consummate gallery professionals who adapted themselves to the journalistic standards of their day. That professional background fed in to their creative work in unexpected ways. By drawing on a wealth of evidence in letters, diaries and the press, this study provides fresh insights into the ways in which four great writers learnt the craft of journalism and brought those lessons to bear on their career as literary authors.
Women and Journalism Chambers, Deborah; Steiner, Linda; Fleming, Carole
2004, 20040601, 2004-06-01T00:00:00, 2004-04-23, 2004-06-01, 20040101
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Women and Journalism offers a rich and comprehensive analysis of the roles, status and experiences of women journalists in the United States and Britain.
Drawing on a variety of sources and dealing ...with a host of women journalists ranging from nineteenth century pioneers to Martha Gellhorn, Kate Adie and Veronica Guerin, the authors investigate the challenges women have faced in their struggle to establish reputations as professionals.
This book provides an account of the gendered structuring of journalism in print, radio and television and speculates about women's still-emerging role in online journalism. Their accomplishments as war correspondents are tracked to the present, including a study of the role they played post-September 11th.
News organisations are struggling with technology transitions and fearful for their future. Yet some organisations are succeeding. Why are organisations such as Vice and BuzzFeed investing in ...journalism and why are pedigree journalists joining them? Why are news organisations making journalists redundant but recruiting technologists? Why does everyone seem to be embracing native advertising? Why are some news organisations more innovative than others? Drawing on extensive first-hand research this book explains how different international media organisations approach digital news and pinpoints the common organisational factors that help build their success.
Entre violencia y cuestionamientos a su trabajo, los periodistas mexicanos producen noticias diariamente. No siempre atendemos como lo hacen o sus impresiones al respecto, cuando hacerlo enriqueceria ...la comprension de su profesion y de sus vinculos con otros actores. Partiendo de 42 entrevistas en profundidad a periodistas de la Ciudad de Mexico, este articulo analiza la manera en que perciben su relacion con el poder politico. Desde el enfoque de la Teoria Fundamentada, los hallazgos se dividen en cinco rubros: "esperanza" de mejores condiciones laborales bajo este gobierno; cambios en rutinas derivados de politicas de esta administracion; restricciones, como falta de transparencia y censura; dependencia de publicidad oficial que genera incertidumbre ante la necesidad de recursos, y malestar por criticas que reciben del gobierno. Resultados que surgen de negociaciones con el poder y que abonan a la literatura acerca de la labor periodistica en el contexto sociopolitico mexicano actual. Palabras clave: Relacion prensa-poder; periodistas de la Ciudad de Mexico; entrevistas en profundidad; control politico Between violence and questions about their work, Mexican journalists produce news daily. We don't always pay attention to how they do it or their impressions of it when doing so would enrich our understanding of their profession. Based on 42 in-depth interviews with journalists from Mexico City, this article analyzes how they perceive their relationship with political power. From the Grounded Theory approach, the findings indicate that this link is associated with five items: "hope" for better working conditions under this government; changes in routines derived from this administration's policies; restrictions, such as lack of transparency and censorship; dependence on official advertising that generates uncertainty regarding the need for resources, and discomfort due to the criticism they receive from the government. Results that arise from negotiations with power and that contribute to the growing literature about journalistic work in the current Mexican sociopolitical context. Keywords:Press-powerrelationship; journalists from Mexico City; in-depth interviews; political control
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