A number of social, technological, and economic shifts over the past two decades have led
to the proliferation of audience analytics and metrics in journalism. This article contends that …

New communication technologies have allowed not only new ways in which the audience
interacts with the news but also new ways in which journalists can monitor online audience …

Communication scholars have recently begun to recognize and investigate the importance
of algorithms to a wide range of processes related to the production and consumption of …

From the New York Times to Gawker, a behind-the-scenes look at how performance
analytics are transforming journalism today—and how they might remake other professions …

This study provides a snapshot of the hierarchy-of-influences model in the new media
environment through examining the effects of audience web metrics on editors. Surveying …

How do news organizations design and implement algorithmically personalized news
services? We conducted 16 in-depth interviews with professionals working in European …

Why has fact-checking spread so quickly within US political journalism? In the first field
experiment conducted among reporters, we varied journalist exposure to messages that …

The collection and reporting of audience data through Web analytics is reshaping the news
construction process, with journalists now aware of what their online audiences want. A …

Industry insiders and media academics often voice unease about the transformations taking
place in the global news industry. Despite its usefulness in drawing attention to the twists …

This study, based on a survey of 206 online editors, tests a theoretical framework guided by
field theory that seeks to explain the patterns of how journalists use Web analytics in their …