Editorial Judgment in an Age of Data: How Audience Analytics and Metrics are Influencing the Placement of News Products

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2015. Major: Mass Communication. Advisors: Seth Lewis, Marco Yzer. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 195 pages.

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