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1. The following interviews were conducted for chapter  6. Interviewees disguised by pseudonyms requested anonymity. The gender of anonymous interviewees should not be inferred from their pseudonyms.

1. Hans Martin Cramer, product developer at Aftenposten, March 2014, August 2016.

1. Stig Jakobsen, editor-in-chief at iTromsø, May 2016.

1. Jens Nicolaisen, digital director at Jyllandsposten, February 2015.

1. Ingeborg Volan, director of innovation and newsroom development at Adresseavisen, August 2016.

1. Anders Emil Møller, former director of digital development at Politiken, March 2014.

1. Johan Koppel Stræde, director of digital development at Politiken, September 2016.

1. Espen Sundve, vice president of product management at Schibsted, May 2016.

1. Markus Gustafsson, editor-in-chief at Omni, April 2014.

1. Markus Gustafsson, editor-in-chief at Omni, March 2015.

1. Henric Englund, software engineer at Omni, March 2015.

1. “Clare,” editor at Omni, March 2015.

1. “Frank,” editor at Omni, March 2015.

1. ”Emma,” editor at Omni, March 2015.

1. Catarina Smedshammar, UX designer at Omni, March 2015.

1. Alexander Nordström, technical lead at Omni, March 2015.

1. Linda Zoumas, product manager at Schibsted Media group, March 2015

1. Christian Gillinger, head of social media at Sveriges Radio, May 2016.

1. Ola Henriksson, web editor and project manager at Svenska Dagbladet, June 2016.

1. Jørgen Frøland, project manager for personalization at Polaris Media, August 2016.

1. Geir Larsen, former head of editorial development at VG, March 2014.

1. The informants were selected for their status as experts in the domain of digital and computational journalism, broadly defined. The interviews contained questions about the use of algorithms, data mining and other computational techniques within the respective news organizations, issues and challenges arising from the use of algorithms to support and shape the news, participants’ views about the current state of journalism and how they see algorithms as part of it, including the potential for automating and personalizing journalistic practices and products. The interviews averaged at 60 minutes with the shortest being 40 minutes and the longest being 110 minutes. They were taped and subsequently transcribed. The interviews were examined using open coding techniques associated with grounded theory (Corbin & Strauss, 2008). The interview transcripts were subsequently read and analyzed for the specific preoccupations and concerns that the actors were speaking to.

1. For Kristin Asdal and Ingunn Moser this is a move that implies a sensibility toward “contexting,” by which they “mean that contexts are being made together with the objects, texts, and issues at stake” (2012: 303).

1. Aftenposten is among the 29 titles owned by the Norwegian media house Schibsted. Schibsted Media Platform is Schibsted’s new efort to assemble the technology and product teams of all of its titles into a single global technology and product organization.

1. Equipped with the data infrastructure and algorithms delivered by the Norwegian big data analytics company Cxense (of which Polaris Media, the company that owns iTromsø, is one of the company shareholders), iTromsø was the first media outlet in Norway to fully automate its mobile news feed.

1. According to the Columbia Journalism Review, structured journalism is an umbrella term that refers to thinking of journalism as bits and pieces of information that can be mixed and matched in infinite ways (Gourarie, 2015).

1. As I did not explicitly ask for permission to publish their names, all names of the editors I followed and interviewed during my fieldwork at Omni are anonymized to protect their privacy.

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