Disputation i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

Carina Tenor försvarar sin doktorsavhandling i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap "News(s) metric management: Navigating institutional change in Sweden’s data-informed legacy newsrooms"

Doktorsavhandling Carina Tenor 2025:34

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New(s) metric management examines a major shift in journalism brought about by the rise of digital journalism: the emergence of newsroom metrics. As the debate over ‘click journalism’ has faded, data has become a normalised, strategic tool for editorial decision-making and organisational learning.

In Sweden’s legacy news industry, this transformation has led to increasingly quantified workplaces, where performance is measured, targets are tracked, and analytics are embedded in everyday routines. Managers and journalists now discuss metric outcomes as KPIs (key performance indicators), signalling a move from simple audience metrics to more comprehensive performance management systems guiding journalistic work. Still, when news organisations stress that they are data-informed rather than data-driven, this reflects a negotiated balance between organisational efficiency and occupational ideals.

The circulation cake, once served to celebrate annual print statistics, is now a rare treat. But the Swedish tradition of celebrating numbers with cake lives on. Slices may still sweeten digital-first newsroom achievements, such as converting subscribers, breaking traffic records, and hitting editorial targets.

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Medverkande

• Tim P. Vos, opponent, professor, Michigan State University
• Ingela Wadbring, betygsnämnd, professor emerita, Mittuniversitetet
• Ester Appelgren, betygsnämnd, docent, Södertörns högskola
• Robert MacKenzie, betygsnämnd, professor, Karlstads universitet

Upplysningar

• Åsa Nilsson
  Telefon: 054-700 14 47
  E-post: asa.nilsson@kau.se