The online audience as gatekeeper: The influence of reader metrics on news editorial selection

Abstract

editorial selection The online audience as gatekeeper: The influence of reader metrics on news -Oct 9, 2014 version of this article was published on more recent A Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com can be found at: Journalism Additional services and information for AbstractThis 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 318 gatekeepers, the study found that audience metrics influence editors in gatekeeping. Editors' likelihood to monitor web metrics is affected by their journalism training. Gatekeepers who attach the importance of high readership to economic benefits are more likely to have different news decisions based on web metrics. The study suggests a revision of the hierarchy-of-influences model with more emphasis being placed on the role of the audience.

Journalistic Roles and Everyday Life

“…By the end of the study timeframe on 30 June 2016, a total of 751 responses had been received, of which 616 were completed sufficiently to warrant inclusion in the analysis. This constitutes a response rate of 12.7 per cent, which is low, but, when compared with previous online survey studies of journalists (Vu 2013;Wigley and Meirick 2008), can be considered acceptable.…”

Checking, Sharing, Clicking and Linking

“…Due to Web metrics there is said to be "increasing knowledge of the wishes of the public" (Nieuwsmonitor 2013, 21). Because news organizations more and more rely on these user statistics, trivialization of the news is imminent (Anderson 2011;Karlsson and Clerwall 2013;MacGregor 2007;Vu 2013). However, as we will see later, the interests of news users cannot be captured in clicks.…”

Política y pelotas: los intereses temáticos de los usuarios de sitios de noticias líderes en argentina en 2016

“…Internet provee a las audiencias de mayor control sobre sus consumos que los medios tradicionales. Ante esta mayor libertad de elección, los usuarios son más propensos a perseguir sus propios intereses y menos propensos a seguir las sugerencias de los editores y productores de noticias (Tewksbury, 2003;Vu, 2014;Welbers, et al, 2015). Las preferencias de los miembros de las audiencias dependen, en parte, de la demanda cognitiva de los contenidos y los estados afectivos que estos generan durante y después de su consumo.…”