Africa in the click stream: audience metrics and foreign correspondents in Africa

Bunce, Mel

doi:10.1080/23743670.2015.1119487

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“…This article draws on data from a 2-month observation period in the Reuters Nairobi bureau in 2009, and semi-structured interviews with the 10 text journalists routinely working in the newsroom. This research was conducted as part of a larger project looking at international news production in sub-Saharan Africa, completed between 2008 and 2014 (Bunce 2013, 2015). The Reuters East Africa bureau is a modern office on the 12th storey of Finance House in downtown Nairobi.…”

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“…In addition, increasingly fragmented or hybrid professionalisms raise questions about the ongoing influence of industry norms more generally (Ornebring et al, 2014). Partial professionalism is particularly common in the international news system, which relies heavily on local stringers and fixers who are not generally trained as journalists, and who may primarily seek financial rewards for their work, rather than professional accolades (Bunce, 2013; Murrell, 2015).…”

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“…What articles did they share? Research has found that editors use this information when they make editorial decisions – for example, if metrics show that a particular story is popular, placing it prominently on the website homepage, and commissioning stories on a similar topic in the future (Anderson, 2011a, 2011b; Boczkowski, 2004; Bright and Nichols, 2014; Bunce, 2015; Dick, 2011; Loosen and Schmidt, 2012; MacGregor, 2007; Petre, 2015b; Tandoc, 2014; Usher, 2013; Vu, 2013). Collectively, this research suggests that audiences are no longer the ignored or imagined quantity they once were (e.g.…”

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Management and resistance in the digital newsroom

Bunce

2017

Journalism

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Citation: Bunce, M. (2017). Management and resistance in the digital newsroom. Journalism, doi: 10.1177/1464884916688963 This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. This article presents an ethnographic case study of a Reuters newswire bureau during a time of conflict between the management and journalists. The article outlines the strategies that management used to incentivize their journalists to change their reporting priorities. These included: the strategic dissemination of audience metrics and praise, and the hiring and promotion of 'appropriate' journalists to positions of influence. These interventions changed who was considered a 'good journalist' in the newsroom, increasing the cultural capital and influence of some journalists over others. The article draws on the insights of Pierre Bourdieu's field theory to help explain how managerial power operates, and the important role of individual journalists in producing and reinforcing newsroom norms. Permanent

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2017

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“…Already present and salient frames and narrative genres that highlight good and bad guys or the audiences’ moral obligation to do something or to care are often relied upon to make this connection (Entman, 2004; Moeller, 1999). In the age of online readership, this connection is created through the use (and insertion by some editors) of words and phrases readers are already searching for on Google or likely to do so (see Bunce, 2015: 19). In the effort to domesticate foreign news on atrocity, coverage may misrepresent, and misunderstand, the nature of an unfolding atrocity (Atkinson, 1999; Chin-Chuan et al, 2002; Moeller, 1999).…”

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What African media? Rethinking research on Africa’s press

Wahutu

2017

Global Media and Communication

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This article looks at the representation of Darfur in Kenya from 2003 to 2008. Using Pierre Bourdieu's field theory and Rodney Benson's habitus affinity and habitus disaffinity, this article highlights the pitfalls of using 'African media' as an analytical category when studying media representations of atrocities by Africa's press. The evidence presented here suggests the need for an approach that is nuanced when analysing representation of issues of political or social import, especially considering, in the case of Kenyan news organizations, the willingness to lift news reports from Western organizations. By lifting such a large number of stories from wire agencies, the Kenyan media field privileges narratives employed by these organizations. This parsing out of articles is necessary if scholars are to confidently understand how the press in Africa represents Africa to local/national audiences.

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“…For instance, in one of the first studies of this kind, Usher (2013) found that at Al-Jazeera English, a lack of organizational norms and policy led journalists not to equate more hits with journalistic success or status. Bunce (2015; 2017) found that, based on readership, Reuters’ managers praised or censured their journalists (cf. Tandoc, 2015).…”

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News on the fly: journalist-audience online engagement success as a cultural matching process

Bélair‐Gagnon

2018

Media, Culture & Society

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Looking at web analytics in newsrooms, journalism studies scholarship has explored the notion of success in using web analytics and metrics in measuring journalist-audience engagement. Scholars have looked at the role of organizational structures, cognition, and emotion in defining success with analytics. This article analyzes how journalists interpret journalist-audience engagement success using web analytics and what this reliance on web analytics might mean for contemporary news production. Using direct observation of newsrooms and interviews with news media workers, this article argues that media workers interpret success in audience engagement using web analytics as a process of cultural matching between web analytics companies, media workers, and audiences. This article shows that analytics in journalism have highlighted some of the shared values and practices across the matchers and revealed the challenges of measuring success in audience-journalist engagement.

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Africa in the click stream: audience metrics and foreign correspondents in Africa

Cited by 27 publications

References 28 publications

Management and resistance in the digital newsroom

Management and resistance in the digital newsroom

What African media? Rethinking research on Africa’s press

News on the fly: journalist-audience online engagement success as a cultural matching process

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