Beaten by Chartbeat? An experimental study on the effect of real-time audience analytics on journalists' news judgment Universiteit Antwerpen
Traditionally, journalists had the autonomy to decide what is worthy enough to be considered news. However, the growing centrality of audience analytics in the news selection process warrants greater scrutiny in how these tools are likely to influence journalistic perceptions on which news stories the public is most interested in. Taking a quantitative approach, we conducted a survey-embedded experiment among political journalists in Belgium ...