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Nicole Blanchett

0000-0001-9444-2018

Associate Professor, School of Journalism (Media and communications)

Toronto Canada

Dr. Nicole Blanchett is an associate professor in the School of Journalism at Toronto Metropolitan University. She has produced a variety of works examining the impact of the use of metrics and analytics on journalistic roles and newsroom gatekeeping, including papers published in Journalism Practice and Digital Journalism and most recently, a book chapter in The Algorithmic Distribution of News. Blanchett is on the editorial board of the online journal Facts and Frictions, a reviewer for a number of other peer-reviewed publications based outside of Canada, contributor to publications such as J-Source and The Conversation Canada, the principal investigator of the Canadian team of the international Journalistic Role Performance project, a project leader in the SSHRC funded Exploratory Journalism project, member of the Canadian branch of the Worlds of Journalism Study, and part of the editorial team of the Local News Data Hub. She formerly worked as a television news producer and writer.

Publications

  • News by Numbers
  • Quantifying Quality: Negotiating Audience Participation and the Value of a Digital Story at NRK
  • Participative Gatekeeping: The Intersection of News, Audience Data, Newsworkers, and Economics
  • Epic Snowmen, Expert Takes, and Audience Orientation: How Journalistic Roles are Performed in Canadian Media
  • Bonhommes de neige « épiques », sources expertes et rôles axés sur le public : Comment les rôles journalistiques se manifestent dans les médias canadiens
  • News by Numbers: The evolution of analytics in journalism
  • The Death of the Homepage is Much Exaggerated
  • The Death of the Homepage is Much Exaggerated
  • Here’s How Metrics and Analytics are Changing Newsroom Practice
  • A Global Study on Pandemic-Era News Explores the Gap Between Journalists’ Ideals and Realities
  • The Complete Guide to Analytics for Journalists
  • Ideals Versus Practice: the Complex Roles of Modern Journalists
  • Algorithms, Platforms, and Policy: The Changing Face of Canadian News Distribution
  • Ideals Versus Practice: the Complex Roles of Modern Journalists
  • The Complete Guide to Analytics for Journalists
  • Seymour Hersh, Twitter and a Lesson in "Off the Record"
  • Metrics and analytics in the newsroom: an ethnographic study exploring how audience data are changing journalistic practice
  • Here’s How Metrics and Analytics are Changing Newsroom Practice
  • Metrics and analytics in the newsroom: an ethnographic study exploring how audience data are changing journalistic practice
  • Algorithms, Platforms, and Policy: The Changing Face of Canadian News Distribution
  • Bottom-up, audience-driven and shut down: How HuffPost Canada left its mark on Canadian media
  • Seymour Hersh, Twitter and a Lesson in "Off the Record"
  • Bottom-up, audience-driven and shut down: How HuffPost Canada left its mark on Canadian media
  • Does News Platform Matter? Comparing Online Journalistic Role Performance to Newspaper, Radio, and Television
  • Is It Us or Them? The Challenge of Getting Journalists to Participate in Academic Research
  • Is It Us or Them? The Challenge of Getting Journalists to Participate in Academic Research

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