Al jazeera english online: Understanding web metrics and news production when a quantified audience is not a commodified audience

Digital Journalism

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 335-351

  Usher, Nikki ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Al Jazeera English; Audiences; News economics; News norms; Online journalism; Web metrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977156688     PISSN: 21670811     EISSN: 2167082X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21670811.2013.801690     Document Type: Article

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