1st Edition
Measurable Journalism Digital Platforms, News Metrics and the Quantified Audience
Introduction: Confronting Measurable Journalism
Matt Carlson
1. Quantified Audiences in News Production: A synthesis and research agenda
Rodrigo Zamith
2. The Audience-Oriented Editor: Making sense of the audience in the newsroom
Raul Ferrer-Conill and Edson C. Tandoc Jr.
3. Selecting Metrics, Reflecting Norms: How journalists in local newsrooms define, measure, and discuss impact
Elia Powers
4. Dimensional Field Theory: The adoption of audience metrics in the journalistic field and cross-field influences
Qun Wang
5. Boundary Work, Interloper Media, and Analytics in Newsrooms: An analysis of the roles of web analytics companies in news production
Valerie Belair-Gagnon and Avery E. Holton
6. Analytics-Driven Journalism? Editorial Metrics and the Reconfiguration of Online News Production Practices in African Newsrooms
Dumisani Moyo, Admire Mare and Trust Matsilele
7. Engineering Consent: How the design and marketing of newsroom analytics tools rationalize journalists’ labor
Caitlin Petre
8. The Elusive Engagement Metric
Jacob L. Nelson
Biography
Matt Carlson is Associate Professor in the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, USA. His most recent book is Journalistic Authority: Legitimating News in the Digital Era (2017). He is the author of over 50 journal articles and book chapters.
