Management and resistance in the digital newsroom

Bunce, Mel

doi:10.1177/1464884916688963

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“…They seemed to appreciate the usefulness of an SEO strategy, and they believed that it could only benefit journalistic work by helping news articles to be found. The above results are consistent with previous studies where journalists and media owners in Greece were found to be able to adapt to technological progress, considering it useful for their profession [15,76]. It is remarkable that there were different opinions about the journalistic product and how it is affected by the SEO practices.…”

Section: The General Impact Of Seo On Journalism (Rq5)supporting

confidence: 91%

“…On the other hand, many people look for specific information, and their priorities area convenience, rapid access, and accuracy [11]. As internet technologies have brought about new modes of producing and consuming news content, many changes are observed in basic journalistic work processes, such as newsgathering, news production and distribution, and the way people consume news [12][13][14][15][16][17]. The journalistic profession is changing.…”

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SEO inside Newsrooms: Reports from the Field

2019

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The journalism profession has changed dramatically in the digital age as the internet, and new technologies, in general, have created new working conditions in the media environment. Concurrently, journalists and media professionals need to be aware and possess a new set of skills connected to web technologies, as well as respond to new reading tendencies and information consumption habits. A number of studies have shown that search engines are an important source of the traffic to news websites around the world, identifying the significance of high rankings in search results. Journalists are writing to be read, and that means ensuring that their news content is found, also, by search engines. In this context, this paper represents an exploratory study on the use of search engine optimization (SEO) in news websites. A series of semi-structured, in-depth interviews with professionals at four Greek media organizations uncover trends and address issues, such as how SEO policy is operationalized and applied inside newsrooms, which are the most common optimization practices, as well as the impact on journalism and news content. Today, news publishers have embraced the use of SEO practices, something that is clear also from this study. However, the absence of a distinct SEO culture was evident in newsrooms under study. Finally, according to results, SEO strategy seems to depend on factors, such as ownership and market orientation, editorial priorities or organizational structures.

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Section: The General Impact Of Seo On Journalism (Rq5)supporting

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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SEO inside Newsrooms: Reports from the Field

2019

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“…Moreover, Bunce (2017) shows how news metrics can be used as disciplinary devices by news managers concerned with shaping news output in ways that fit desired business models. This use of metrics to identify and reward certain reporters while rebuking others becomes absorbed into newsroom cultures and affects how reporters understand what good work looks like.…”

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Confronting Measurable Journalism

Carlson

2018

Digital Journalism

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This introductory essay introduces "measureable journalism" as a term that encapsulates the cultural and material shift to digital platforms capable of providing real-time, individualizable, quantitative data about audience consumption practices. Measurable journalism is not a break from the past as much as it is an enactment of industrialized journalism's desire to monitor its audience. As a conceptual framework, measurable journalism adopts a broad, anti-reductionist perspective to avoid privileging technology, economics, or professionalism as having ultimate explanatory or agentic dominion over the other facets. What is proposed is a mutually constitutive approach that considers how elements of materiality, practice, culture, and economics converge and diverge under the banner of measurable journalism. This approach both informs future research and helps identify the social implications of measurable journalism.

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“…Étant donné leur position privilégiée d'interaction avec les publics sur les médias sociaux (Lee et Vandyke, 2015 ;Paulussen, 2012), ils sont aux premières lignes de l'actualisation des luttes pour l'attention sur ce terrain médiatique particulier en devenant responsables de la portée et de la visibilité de leurs médias sur des plateformes sociales. Les exigences de rentabilité sont particulièrement prégnantes en ce qui les concerne, étant donné la possibilité d'amasser des données extrêmement précises sur les publics rejoints (Bunce, 2017 ;Jouët, 2003 ;Stone, 2014 ;Welbers et al, 2016) pour ensuite valoriser cette attention dans une logique publicitaire. Cette dernière pose le gestionnaire de médias sociaux comme professionnel hybride, relevant à la fois du journalisme, par la valeur journalistique des contenus qu'il doit mettre en visibilité, et de la publicité, en raison des exigences de génération d'attention envers les produits diffusés (Gobeil, 2018a).…”

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Revue Communication & professionnalisation

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Les transformations contemporaines traversant les sphères professionnelles de la communication, et se construisant notamment autour du numérique, paraissent nombreuses et potentiellement de grande ampleur, bien qu’il demeure difficile d’en délimiter les contours avec certitude. Dans ces métiers, les conditions d’emploi et les conditions de travail changent graduellement, non sans faire écho à des changements touchant l’ensemble des sociétés, et semblent s’accompagner de réactions diverses, parfois équivoques de la part des différentes catégories d’acteurs. Dans cet article, nous interrogeons les métiers de la communication comme résistances, reflets et accélérations de ces transformations qui les dépassent, afin d’aborder trois propositions principales de travail : le transfert de responsabilités – économiques comme éthiques – à la charge des travailleurs et travailleuses ; la construction de la flexibilité comme idéal au sein d’un entrepreneuriat de soi ; la déstabilisation des carrières au profit d’une mise en avant d’une valeur ajoutée à l’offre de travail. Ensemble, ces mutations au sein des sphères de la communication apparaissent comme une traduction, à la fois reprise et interprétation spécifique, des exigences du capitalisme néolibéral. Contemporary transformations of labour in the different professional spheres of communication, which are increasingly taking ground in the digital landscape, appear to be emerging on a potentially large scale, although the precise nature and forms of these transformations remain to be studied more closely. Working conditions and modes of employment are gradually changing, echoing larger societal trends, and are met with different, sometimes equivocal reactions. In this article, we look at communication work as a site where these transformations are reflected, resisted and accelerated. We formulate three research avenues: 1) a transfer of responsibility – both of an economic and ethical nature – from the organisations to the workers; 2) the presentation of flexibility as a new ideal in a movement favouring self-entrepreneurship; 3) a destabilization of careers and employment trajectories that puts forward the need for workers to demonstrate their added value and expertise. We argue that, taken together, these transformations that are taking place in communication spheres of work can be considered as translations – both picking up and offering specific interpretations of – neoliberal capitalism and its pressures.

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Management and resistance in the digital newsroom

Cited by 108 publications

References 36 publications

SEO inside Newsrooms: Reports from the Field

SEO inside Newsrooms: Reports from the Field

Confronting Measurable Journalism

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