All the News That's Fit to Click av Caitlin Petre

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<p><b>From the <i>New York Times </i>to <i>Gawker</i>, a behind-the-scenes look at how performance analytics are transforming journalism today¿and how they might remake other professions tomorrow</b><br><br>Journalists today are inundated with data about which stories attract the most clicks, likes, comments, and shares. These metrics influence what stories are written, how news is promoted, and even which journalists get hired and fired. Do metrics make journalists more accountable to the public? Or are these data tools the contemporary equivalent of a stopwatch wielded by a factory boss, worsening newsroom working conditions and journalism quality? In <i>All the News That''s Fit to Click</i>, Caitlin Petre takes readers behind the scenes at the<i> New York Times</i>, <i>Gawker</i>, and the prominent news analytics company Chartbeat to explore how performance metrics are transforming the work of journalism.<br><br>Petre describes how digital metrics are a powerful but insidious new fo