Chapter 1-7
Chapter 1 Introduction
What this book is about
Our rationale
Definitions of main terms
Modernity and cybernetics as projects
Overview of the book
Chapter 2 Numbers as Information in the Information Society
Enlightenment, society and information
Reporting numbers as information
Political arithmetic and public sphere
Numbers and public sphere
Quality in a quantified world
Quality as a precision tool

Chapter 3 The Never-Ending Debate on Quality in Journalism
Ambiguity and convergence
The problem of measuring
Manifold dimensions of quality
Pursuing objectivity and quality
Scientific methods in journalism
Chapter 4 Statistics in Journalism Practice and Principle
Ars conjectandi in journalistic performance
Statistical agencies as information providers
Statistics as rhetorical device
Chapter 5 The Normative Importance of 'Quality' in Journalism
Information framework
Philosophical framework
Quality frameworks and practices
Information links

Abstraction levels
The irrelevance of truth
Chapter 6 Journalism Meets Statistics in Real Life
Content analysis
The problematic sense-making
Why do they do it?
Focus groups and audiences
Authority, accessibility, accuracy
Q-sort analysis
Further discussion
Chapter 7 The Ideology of Statistics in the News
What is there
Broader discussion
Scope for further research
Epilogue
References
Index