Becoming the Data-Informed Newsroom? The Promotion of Audience Metrics in the Newsroom and Journalists’ Interactions with Them

Hendrickx, Jonathan; Montero, Eladio; Ranaivoson, Heritiana Renaud; Ballon, Pieter

doi:10.1080/21670811.2021.1890170

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“…Differentiation is also made difficult within the Facebook environment, as every news story looks the same, serving to undifferentiate the journalistic product (Haim et al 2021;Munger 2020). On the other hand, audience analytics (Ferrucci 2020) promote strategic differentiation in terms of the content that reaches end-users (Hendrickx et al 2021), to the extent that differentiation moves from the production end of the value chain to the consumption end, changing content strategies in the news industries.…”

Section: How Journalism Makes Moneymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The business of news in the AI economy

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2024

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This article considers the impact of AI on the economy and financing of journalism organizations. AI has structural implications on the news media beyond the practice of journalism and the management of news as a process. AI also shifts the premises of competition, competitive advantage, mergers and acquisitions, and IT capabilities in the news industries. Not least, it fundamentally challenges journalism's traditional business model. Considered hereunder is the two‐sided market model, journalism's traditional platform function, its network effects, and its public good characteristics. The aim of the article is, thus, to reconceptualize core economic features of the news industries in the context of AI to provide a vocabulary with which to assess the economic future of journalism in a data‐driven platform economy.

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Section: How Journalism Makes Moneymentioning

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“…On the other hand, audience analytics (Ferrucci 2020) promote strategic differentiation in terms of the content that reaches end‐users (Hendrickx et al. 2021), to the extent that differentiation moves from the production end of the value chain to the consumption end, changing content strategies in the news industries.…”

Section: How Journalism Makes Moneymentioning

confidence: 99%

The business of news in the AI economy

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2024

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“…A structured literature review on the adoption of Bourdieusian thought in journalism scholarship denoted risen interest among academics in recent years, predominantly for his field and capital concepts (Maares and Hanusch, 2020). They and other notions such as the doxa , accepted beliefs, and habitus, or one’s actions influenced by cultural capital (Hendrickx et al, 2021: 433), have been operationalised to investigate various dimensions of current journalism practice and research. These range from the complex relationship between journalism and audiences (Vos et al, 2019), news values (Schultz, 2007), sports journalism (English, 2016) and SMEs.…”

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Social media news editors as journalists or marketeers: Who are they and how do they identify themselves?

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2023

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Social media editors (SMEs) have become fixtures in contemporary newsrooms as part of designated social media teams. A growing body of scholarship has explored their daily work routines and how they try to ‘sell’ online news on platforms such as Facebook while caught in the middle between mass media and social media logics. Thus far, there is little clarity on how SMEs can be classified as newsroom workers, and even less so on how they classify and identify themselves. Through 22 expert interviews with Belgian and Dutch SMEs and a proposed expansion of Bourdieu’s field theory, this paper shines light on the role and identity of SMEs as the latest addition to the growing body of diverse newsroom workers. We argue that SMEs see themselves as journalists due to the nature of the job itself as well as their experience and other tasks in the news organization. Without seeing themselves as marketeers, they try to sell the news as best they can through social media. We conclude by making a case for seeing SMEs as an important group of news actors who can identify and signal early developments in the context of social media news.

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“…As more and more voices and perspectives enter the public domain through different (social) media, journalists and editors face the challenge of presenting information to their readers in a way that does justice to the many aspects of societal debates, and that maximizes the content and opinion diversity of online news (INMA, 2018). In response to this challenge, many news websites have adopted data-driven systems to identify and expose their readership to those perspectives and pieces of content deemed relevant (Hendrickx et al, 2021), and the technological development of recommender systems for the news industry has grown into an active area of research (Portugal et al, 2018;Da'u and Salim, 2020;Fengh et al, 2020). As has been revealed on the basis of various algorithmic auditing efforts, however, systems for content curation and news personalization can be marked by problems including bias reinforcement, and their inner workings might remain opaque to the end users of the recommendations (Sandvig et al, 2014;Elami et al, 2015).…”

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An Opinion Facilitator for Online News Media

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With more and more voices and opinions entering the public domain, a key challenge facing journalists and editors is maximizing the context of the information that is presented on news websites. In this paper, we argue that systems for exposing readers to the many aspects of societal debates should be grounded in methods and tools that can provide a fine-grained understanding of these debates. The present article thereby explores the conceptual transition from opinion observation to opinion facilitation by introducing and discussing the Penelope opinion facilitator: a proof-of-concept reading instrument for online news media that operationalizes emerging methods for the computational analysis of cultural conflict developed in the context of the H2020 ODYCCEUS project. It will be demonstrated how these methods can be combined into an instrument that complements the reading experience of the news website The Guardian by automatically interlinking news articles on the level of semantic frames. In linguistic theory, semantic frames are defined as coherent structures of related concepts. We thereby zoom in on instances of the “causation” frame, such as “climate change causes global warming,” and illustrate how a reading instrument that links articles based on such frames might reconfigure our readings of climate news coverage, with specific attention to the case of global warming controversies. Finally, we relate our findings to the context of the development of computational social science, and discuss pathways for the evaluation of the instrument, as well as for the future upscaling of qualitative analyses and close readings.

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Becoming the Data-Informed Newsroom? The Promotion of Audience Metrics in the Newsroom and Journalists’ Interactions with Them

Cited by 21 publications

References 30 publications

The business of news in the AI economy

The business of news in the AI economy

Social media news editors as journalists or marketeers: Who are they and how do they identify themselves?

An Opinion Facilitator for Online News Media

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