Papers by Allie Kosterich
Journalism Practice, 2019
Digital transformation continues to impact the news industry and news organizations are adapting ... more Digital transformation continues to impact the news industry and news organizations are adapting accordingly through shifts in required skills and prescribed job positions of journalists. In order to examine the changing nature of the modern journalist, a case study was conducted examining the employment histories of New York City journalists (n = 3587). Social network analysis was used to better understand the career trajectories of journalists within the dataset, with a specific focus on understanding the development of new jobs for journalists in data, analytic, social, and mobile-oriented job positions. Findings demonstrate important differences between traditional employment patterns and those of employees in jobs requiring new skills and knowledge of new technology.
Television and New Media, 2015
Changes in the ways that audiences use television, and the ways in which such usage can be measur... more Changes in the ways that audiences use television, and the ways in which such usage can be measured, raise the possibility of a transformation of the audience commodity, and the currency that fuels the audience marketplace. Specifically, it appears at this point that social media analytics are beginning to play a role in how television program success is measured, and in how advertising dollars are allocated across programs. Essentially, then, the emergence of social TV analytics represents the possibility of a new market information regime taking hold in the audience marketplace. Working from an institutional theoretical framework, this article uses trade materials as a window into industry dynamics and discourses in an effort to provide an account of the recent emergence and usage of social TV analytics in the U.S. television industry and thus explore the process of institutionalization of a new market information regime.
International Journal on Media Management , 2019
Venture capital funding is an increasingly common yet under- studied management model in the rapi... more Venture capital funding is an increasingly common yet under- studied management model in the rapidly changing market of news media. Drawing on scholarship in media management and entrepreneurship, this study applies a community ecology framework to analyze the relationship between venture capital funding and digital news media firms. In doing so, this work explores the interaction between legacy news media firms and new entrants as they struggle for scarce resources and seek to grow in the face of rapid change. A dataset tracking funding activity of legacy and startup news media firms is used to analyze resource allocation within the digital news media eco- system. Results of the analyses provide insights for news media management by furthering understanding regarding venture capital funding models and the generative mechanisms that help drive growth. Specifically, findings highlight the impor- tance of cross-sector engagement and the tension between firm age and position for growth in the digital news media ecosystem.
Journal of Media Business Studies , 2019
Technological developments, along with associated economic rea- lities and social changes, contin... more Technological developments, along with associated economic rea- lities and social changes, continue to disrupt current practices of the news media industry, which creates substantial impacts on news firm management strategy and performance. This research is an exploratory step in understanding the strategies related to institutional change within the context of the news media indus- try, specifically as related to change in the journalist profession and the rise of news nerds. Using semi-structured interviews with 20 news editors and managers across 17 news firms (global and local within the United States), I examine patterns of strategies and how they relate to institutional change within the journalist pro- fession and the news media industry more broadly. The findings from this research answer questions about the strategies that drive rapid institutional change in the journalist profession.
The SAGE Handbook of Web History, 2019
As we near the third decade of the Web, attention is needed on the integral impact of the Web’s h... more As we near the third decade of the Web, attention is needed on the integral impact of the Web’s historical development on a range of social, cultural, economic, and political facets of society. The influence of the history of the Web is particularly significant with regard to the ways that humans connect, share, and communicate. In this context, the impact has been deeply evident in the trans- formation of consumption within the news industry. In essence, a history of news media has quickly become a history of the Web. As such, this chapter provides a comprehensive review of Web history as related specifically to the news media industry. The chapter focuses on Web history and the context of news media in the United States from 1990 through 2015. Specifically, the scope covers a history of change on the Web and related impacts with regards to the ways in which consumers engage with the news media eco- system. Emphasis is placed on production, distribution, and consumption patterns related to print news media and key legacy broadcast news media. In doing so, this chap- ter examines the ways that consumers access news and information by mapping out the changes in consumer behavior with regard to Web history and access to news. A key point throughout this chapter is the notion that many present-day changes in news media consumption can be traced back to historical changes in news media content on the Web, thus providing a window into best practices for future adaptation.
Expertise, Communication, and Organizing, 2016
This chapter examines how organizations operate as expert communication services competing with o... more This chapter examines how organizations operate as expert communication services competing with other organizations to solve communication problems experienced by stakeholders trying to address some social, political, environmental , or economic challenge or opportunity. Such organizations are interesting for the purposes of interrogating communication and expertise as they are essentially in the business of putting the two together. In so doing, these organizations pursue particular ideas about communication while crowding out other ideas about communication in the market for solutions. We aim to provide grounds for interrogating the nature of communication and expertise in an environment where organizations offer competing means, methods, and processes for stake-holders regarding expert ways of communicating. By focusing on ways organizations define and communicate expert services this perspective offers insight into the constitution of organizational expertise in the informational age. The organizations of interest in this chapter were ostensibly built to provide expert communication services to others in the market for solutions, which Eggers and MacMillan (2013) describe as the opportunity space defined by the consequences of modern living on the environment, economy, society, and culture. The primary objective of these third-party organizations is to provide expert communication servicing for mediating and facilitating interaction among stakeholders from multiple disciplines and sectors. These expert services in communication are thus not the firms, corporations, government agencies, or foundations that offer particular environmental, economic, or social solutions in the market for solutions but instead offer ideas and methods for orchestrating how other organizations engage each other to achieve stake-holder collaboration.
This chapter examines how organizations operate as expert communication services competing with o... more This chapter examines how organizations operate as expert communication services competing with other organizations to solve communication problems experienced by stakeholders trying to address some social, political, environmental, or economic challenge or opportunity. Such organizations are interesting for the purposes of interrogating communication and expertise as they are essen- tially in the business of putting the two together. In so doing, these organizations pursue particular ideas about communication while crowding out other ideas about communication in the market for solutions. We aim to provide grounds for interrogating the nature of communication and expertise in an environment where organizations offer competing means, methods, and processes for stake- holders regarding expert ways of communicating. By focusing on ways organ- izations define and communicate expert services this perspective offers insight into the constitution of organizational expertise in the informational age
This article examines the patterns of hyperlinking among key online newspapers from 1996 to 2000 ... more This article examines the patterns of hyperlinking among key online newspapers from 1996 to 2000 and provides critical insight into the processes by which media companies adapt to new technology. Theories of organizational imprinting and imitation in the media industry are used to frame the rise of online news in an effort to describe processes of growth and track the interactions among legacy newspapers during a formational period in the development of online news. Patterns of digital connectivity reveal the evolution of an increasingly close–knit online news community, as well as the trajectory of leadership positions in the online environment. The analysis reveals various approaches utilized by leading organizations as they adapted to online technology providing guidance for organizations moving forward.
Digital Journalism, 2017
This article examines the role of code in the process of news distribution and the degree to whic... more This article examines the role of code in the process of news distribution and the degree to which code and algorithms can filter and prioritize news, much as an editor would. The discussion focuses specifically on the context of mobile news applications that filter news for consumers. Given concerns raised by the intersection of computer science and journalism, analysis moves away from the common notion that code is replacing humans as producers of news and shifts toward the role of code in helping journalists order and communicate the news. Thus, the focus of this research is on code as technological actants, filtering news based on decisions imbued into the code by human actors. This article reports the results of an investigation of code contained in 59 open source mobile news apps and an analysis of the content of that code. Findings highlight the journalistic decisions made in code and contribute to discussion surrounding the relationship between algorithmic and traditional news values.
This article explores the impact of evolving conceptions of the audience by analyzing television’... more This article explores the impact of evolving conceptions of the audience by analyzing television’s “hits” as portrayed by two market information regimes: traditional Nielsen ratings and social television analytics, a supplementary big data approach to audience measurement. In doing so, this work provides insight into the types of content that perform well under a social television analytics regime based on audience engagement relative to those that succeed under the traditional ratings regime based on audience exposure. As such, this article addresses the changes and challenges fostered by an era of big data and contributes both to the management scholarship on media industries, as well as to the audience behavior literature by expanding upon the relationship between television ratings, media management, and the implications for cultural production.
Changes in the ways that audiences use television, and the ways in which such usage can be measur... more Changes in the ways that audiences use television, and the ways in which such usage can be measured, raise the possibility of a transformation of the audience commodity,
and the currency that fuels the audience marketplace. Specifically, it appears at this point that social media analytics are beginning to play a role in how television program
success is measured, and in how advertising dollars are allocated across programs. Essentially, then, the emergence of social TV analytics represents the possibility of a new market information regime taking hold in the audience marketplace. Working from an institutional theoretical framework, this article uses trade materials as a window into industry dynamics and discourses in an effort to provide an account of the
recent emergence and usage of social TV analytics in the U.S. television industry and thus explore the process of institutionalization of a new market information regime.
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and the currency that fuels the audience marketplace. Specifically, it appears at this point that social media analytics are beginning to play a role in how television program
success is measured, and in how advertising dollars are allocated across programs. Essentially, then, the emergence of social TV analytics represents the possibility of a new market information regime taking hold in the audience marketplace. Working from an institutional theoretical framework, this article uses trade materials as a window into industry dynamics and discourses in an effort to provide an account of the
recent emergence and usage of social TV analytics in the U.S. television industry and thus explore the process of institutionalization of a new market information regime.
and the currency that fuels the audience marketplace. Specifically, it appears at this point that social media analytics are beginning to play a role in how television program
success is measured, and in how advertising dollars are allocated across programs. Essentially, then, the emergence of social TV analytics represents the possibility of a new market information regime taking hold in the audience marketplace. Working from an institutional theoretical framework, this article uses trade materials as a window into industry dynamics and discourses in an effort to provide an account of the
recent emergence and usage of social TV analytics in the U.S. television industry and thus explore the process of institutionalization of a new market information regime.