In February 2019, I became co-director of AUT research center for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD). Since 2011, I have compiled the annual New Zealand media ownership reports for the center.
My article “An attention economy trap? An empirical investigation into four news companies Facebook traffic and revenue” was published in the Journal of Media Business Studies in October 2018. You can read it here.
I have joined the editorial board of an open access academic journal Media and Communication. The articles published can be read here.
In 2017, awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Auckland University of Technology (AUT). In 2016, awarded the ‘best New Zealand research paper’ at the World Journalism Education Congress in Auckland, New Zealand.
I am a regular blogger for the International News Media Association (INMA), and the blogs are available here.
“Merja Myllylahti considers the issues surrounding the use of metrics, powerfully linking their use in news organizations to the economics of news and the ethical implications of their use.”
Reviewer about my chapter “We need to talk about metrics”, published in the Cambridge Scholars book Themes and Debates in Critical Journalism, edited by Dr Verica Rupar.
Fact checking digital transformation of The New York Times and Fairfax in The Conversation.
