This is Jacobin Radio. I'm Suzy Weisman. On today's program we talked to

Caitlin Petre, a media sociologist at Rutgers University, about her new book,

All the News that's fit to click. It's a critical look at how performance

analytics are transforming the work of profit driven journalism. She exposes

how newsroom metrics that measure engage reader engagement with digital

news content represent a new intensified form of commercial pressure. Journalists

are driven to optimize their content for clicks in ways that end up

reshaping the newsroom power dynamics and their own working conditions. Journalism

after all is a form of labor and one that has become increasingly

casualized and precarious. Caitlin Petre's eye opening account of data-driven

journalism is also an important preview of how the metrics revolution may

transform other professions with far reaching implications. All this when our

program returns in just a moment.

This is Jacobin Radio. I'm Suzy Weisman and really pleased to have Caitlin Petre

with us for the first time. She's an assistant professor of journalism and media

studies at Rutgers University and she studies the impact of data analytics and

algorithms in the workplace. These are the buzzwords, right? And these are really

important and she has a brand new book that just came out less than a month

ago and has a terrific title and it's called All the News That's Bit To Click. It

is just by Princeton and she's going to join us to talk about really not just

what's in the book but what it means for the larger journalism universe. And

Victor Picard says in his excellent review of it at jacobin.com that her book is

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