All the News That’s Fit to Click

“A rare look at the day-to-day operations of contemporary newsrooms, where reporters’ expertise and editorial discretion are increasingly usurped by the revenue-maximizing metrics of audience analytics and data dashboards. Essential reading for anyone concerned with how news gets made in today’s attention economy.”–Natasha Schüll, author of Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
“Content may be king, but to determine what content is produced, media businesses are increasingly turning to metrics. Caitlin Petre is a keen and incisive observer of the way metrics-driven systems, surveillance, and analysis have infiltrated newsrooms, and what the effects have been for workers, journalism, and democracy.”–Eli Pariser, New York Times bestselling author of The Filter Bubble: How the New Personalized Web Is Changing What We Read and How We Think
“Petre’s beautifully written book provides an in-depth look at how and why metrics triumphed in America’s newsrooms. This book will challenge everything you think you thought you knew about how news media operates.”–Meredith Broussard, author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World

Caitlin Petre is assistant professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University. She lives in New York City.

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