Christopher Anderson

TL;DR: The authors explores a tension between the now common rhetorical invocation of the news audience as a productive and generative entity, and the simultaneous, increasingly common institutional reduction of the audience to a quantifiable, rationalizable, largely consumptive aggregate.

TL;DR: The bulk of the article outlines a series of six lenses through which an approach to computational journalism might be carried out, four of which are drawn from Schudson’s classic typology of the sociology of news—economic, political, cultural, and organizational approaches.

TL;DR: The transformation of American journalism is unavoidable as discussed by the authors and much of that future is already here and because there is no such thing as the news industry anymore, the authors of this paper are concerned with the practice of journalism and the practices of journalists.

TL;DR: The authors revisited questions of journalism and professionalization from an explicitly sociological angle to understand journalism's troubled professional project, the relationship between the objectivity norm and that project, and the manner in which journalists attempt to forge a journalistic jurisdiction out of the link between their everyday work and their claim to possess a form of professionalized knowledge.

TL;DR: The authors argue that a fundamental transformation has occurred in journalists' understanding of their audiences and that a new level of responsiveness to the agenda of the audience is becoming built into the DNA of contemporary news work.