Abstract
ABSTRACT Amidst the widespread adoption of audience metrics in newsrooms, editors were found to make news decisions based on clicks alongside traditional journalistic standards such as news values and news types. It raised concerns about editorial independence. The study relied on extensive content analysis of news stories from six US newspapers, supported by the Natural Language Processing model, to investigate the possible impacts of story popularity on news placement. The results revealed strong and consistent relationships between popularity and story placement, overriding the effects of news types and news values.
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