Abstract
Coding, at its core, is an act of problem solving. Following this adoption and adaptation of journalistic code, the recent computational turn within newsrooms raises new questions about how and to what degree journalistic values are imprinted into code. Extending this line of scholarship, this special issue, “Opening the Black Box of Code in Journalism: Materiality, Manufacture and Methods,” studies journalistic code. Through the special issue, we explore how values embedded into code can amplify certain ideologies predominant in regions of the world where an emphasis on innovation and technological infrastructure can overshadow important social and cultural factors that shape journalism. The increased codification of newswork has also prompted introspection about the values inscribed into code by its creators, highlighting that these technological inputs are far from neutral.
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