“…In scholarship on automation in journalism investigations of newswork-management dynamics have been only marginally explored (Cohen, 2015;Bucher, 2017;Slaček Brlek, Smrke and Vobič, 2017). However, scholarship provides insights into practices and perceptions (van Dalen, 2012;Young and Hermida, 2015;Thurman et al, 2017), profoundly discusses epistemological implications (Splendore, 2016;Coddington, 2015;Carlson, 2017) and reconsiders legal and ethical issues of recent human-automation modes of journalism (Dörr and Hollbuchner, 2017;Diakopoulos and Koliska, 2017;Montal and Reich, 2017). To add to these discussions, we explore automation through the negotiations of newsroom management -a 'breed' of editors that has affirmed itself in the last three decades, manoeuvring between news and business ideals and interests (Underwood, 1993(Underwood, /1995 x)and its role in dynamics of the "appropriation of journalists" (Hardt, 1998: 194).…”