newspaper editors vs the crowd: on the appropriateness of front page news selection
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Newspaper Editors vs the Crowd: On the Appropriateness of Front
Page News Selection
Arkaitz ZubiagaCity University of New York
SNOW 2013 – May 13, 2013
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The front page is the showcase that might condition whether or not one buys the newspaper.
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Either in vending machines...
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...or in news stands
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Editorial meetings
● Newspaper editors discuss to select the news that will be part of next day's front page.
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Editorial meetings
● Newspaper editors discuss to select the news that will be part of next day's front page.
● But how efficient is this news selection so as to matching the interests of the audience?
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Study
VS
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Data
● Whole year of (2012) NYTimes newspaper stories [1]:– Stories both in front page and inside.
● Number of times each of these stories...– was tweeted.
– was posted on FB.
● [1] http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/
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Data
● For each story:– Category: nytimes.com/date/category/headline
– Part of front page: 0 or 1
– FB posts: #
– Tweets: #
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Daily ranking
● For each day, check the overlap between:– Front page stories.
– Top stories on Twitter and Facebook.
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Results
● Most popular story of the day on Twitter:– Appeared 147/366 times on the front page.
● Most popular story of the day on Facebook:– Appeared 73/366 times on the front page.
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Results
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Summarizing...
● Little overlap between front page news and top social news.
● While editors pick hard news for the front page, users are rather into softer news.
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Thoughts
● It's hard to imagine front pages where news about science, technology, or fashion predominate.
● But would this “modernization” really help sell more newspapers when the daily circulation is declining?
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Thoughts
● Recency of news: how many hours had past since the news broke?
● e.g., the Boston Marathon bombing ranked 7th the next day on Facebook, and wouldn't make the front page.
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Live demo
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