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Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2025
Nic Newman and Federica Cherubini, Reuters InstituteNews organisations are braced for multiple challenges in 2025 that likely include attacks from hostile politicians, economic headwinds, and battles to protect IP. Changes to search will become a major grievance for a new industry that already lost social traffic and fears a further decline in visibility due to AI...
media relations
Substack: The next big thing or another media bubble?
Catherine Baab-Muguira, QuartzThe media industry needs a Saviour. Maybe the entire knowledge economy does. Enter Substack, the newsletter platform that punches far above its weight in cultural impact, despite its mere $650 million valuation.
media relations
socio political environment
Media & Entertainment Consumer Insights 2024
DeloitteDeloitte’s 13th edition of Media & Entertainment Consumer Insights takes you on a journey through the ever-changing Australian digital landscape.
media relations
Big tech is painting itself as journalism’s saviour. We should tread carefully
Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos, The ConversationWe’ve long been warned about the looming demise of traditional journalism in the face of digital disruption. But some tech giants, once the very disruptors themselves, have been positioning themselves as journalism’s saviours.
media relations
What’s with the rise of “fact-based journalism”?
Philip M. Napoli and Asa Royal, NiemanlabTo describe one form of journalism as ‘fact-based’ is to tacitly acknowledge that there is also such a thing as ‘non-fact-based journalism.’ And there isn’t.
media relations
Internet Cults, Disinformation, and Democracy
From Gamergate to Pizzagate and beyond to QAnon, internet manipulation and disinformation campaigns have grown to a geopolitical scale and spilled into real life with devastating consequences, entangling everyone from politicians to Hollywood celebrities.
media relations
communication
Audience loyalty may not be what we think
Mark Coddington and Seth Lewis, Nieman Journalism Lab, 27 April 2023How participatory journalism became a taken-for-granted norm, how news use can help mitigate misinformation beliefs, and the limits of live fact-checking.
media relations
socio political environment
Communications and media in Australia: How we watch and listen to content
ACMA, ACMAThe Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) have released a report titled Communications and media in Australia: How we watch and listen to content.
communication
media relations
Is the media doomed?
POLITICO, 21 January 2022It’s almost conventional wisdom right now that the news media is in a fast-moving crisis. With mainstream news sources collapsing, Americans are increasingly divided not only in what they read, but even what facts they choose to believe. How much worse will it get? Is there a way out? The changes in the media industry make it nearly impossible...
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