The post-lunch session at the Future of Journalism 2023 conference that I’m attending is on platforms, and begins with Sherine Conyers. Her focus is on newsroom metrics, and she conducted an ethnography of networked digital newsrooms in Australia with a particular focus on their metrics tools. Her focus here is on two case studies which illuminate platformisation at work .
The first case study is of a slow news day at a news organisation, with the Chartbeat Big Board news engagement metrics moving slowly and editors on the lookout for new stories. Meanwhile, searches related to Jennifer Aniston are trending …