Totally agree that newsrooms have lost a lot of nuance. The constant grind to produce puts quantity ahead of quality, and analytics tell newsrooms what (literally) sells subscriptions and what doesn’t. I don’t think any paper is free from this date these days.
Totally agree that newsrooms have lost a lot of nuance. The constant grind to produce puts quantity ahead of quality, and analytics tell newsrooms what (literally) sells subscriptions and what doesn’t. I don’t think any paper is free from this date these days.
Yes -- how and what analytics are used as well as priorities and who/what gets platformed has always concerned me for several reasons.
(Good seeing you here! We need to do that coffee :) )
Yes! I’ll message you on Twitter. 😀