Many quotes do not carry names or organisations, at the request of those contributors. Newsroom employment dropped by a quarter between 2008 and 2018, but the job cuts were not shouldered equally by journalists of all ages. Global revenues (print & digital) declined by 3 percent (YoY 2018) with much of that hit coming from print advertising revenue (down 7 percent).Digital advertising revenues increased by 5 percent and are forecast to improve in 2019.; Paying news … Overall, the impact of these changes is hard to assess though a study from the University of Michigan suggests significantly reduced engagement levels with unreliable sites in the US since 2017.19 A French study suggests engagement with ‘dubious’ sites has halved in France since 2015.20 The company has helped fund wider initiatives such as the News Literacy Project and the News Integrity project. The company already offers free and paid tiers for its enterprise social network Facebook at Work. Disney or Amazon could also be interested. Civil credibility labels provide further detail about processes and sourcing of a particular story. Meanwhile project-based contributions from NGOs and philanthropists has become a major income stream for publishers with 12% of our respondents saying it will be important this year. 2017/Jan 2018 Digital News Report Q. They’ll also need to find ways to combine their unique human resources with this new wave of technologies to maximise their potential to create more engaging and sustainable journalism going forward. Even news publishers that continue to rely on advertising are refocusing on loyalty and on building relationships over time. This will be a critical year for both publishers and platforms in terms of rebuilding trust and credibility after years of self-inflicted wounds around quality, privacy, and user experience. Toutiao has around 120m users with average dwell times of over an hour each day. Podcasts may not offer a pot of gold, but easier access, better discovery and millions of new audio devices suggests there is considerable growth left in the market. Colleagues helped build up lists of high profile women in finance while Bloomberg launched a New Voices initiative to give media training to women executives. Privacy a new platform battleground, US legislation likely: The Cambridge Analytica data leak contributed significantly to public concern about the safety of personal information with one poll conducted immediately afterwards showing that almost half (44%) had changed their Facebook privacy settings.35 Meanwhile Apple CEO Tim Cook has called for new digital privacy laws in the United States, warning that the collection of huge amounts of personal data by companies is harming society. Key findings about the online news landscape in America. Like Tortoise, it taps into a desire to slow down, to consume deeper and more meaningful journalism, but also to connect with like-minded people. Digital leaders survey 2019, N=163, Q4. To what degree do you agree with the following statements? In the UK Johnston Press, publisher of the ‘i’, the Scotsman and the Yorkshire Post, collapsed – only to be reborn as JPI media, free of much of its huge debt and historic pension obligations. While publishers recognise that voice will be a major disruption, they are not clear about whether now is the right time to invest. Just 22% used news briefings daily in the UK and 18% in the US. Around 50% contributed comments and ideas in open questions and some of these are quoted with permission in this document. Over half (56%) are concerned about levels of newsroom diversity. The Civil initiative is just one way of using blockchain technology, In theory, it could also unlock micropayments for individual stories or authors by doing away with credit card and inter-banking fees that currently make these impractical. Broadly I think publishers should look to a model where we share technology which solves our common issues and then use our journalism to differentiate our output. Benchmarks . Tortoise Media is the brainchild of former BBC Director of News, James Harding, along with co-founder Katie Vannick-Smith, most recently President at the Wall Street Journal. After rising from 2014 to 2016, it remained steady through 2019. Story formats from the BBC, Washington Post and the Guardian. Healthcare Industry Trends to Watch For in 2019 The healthcare industry is constantly changing as new technologies and trends emerge. It’s been another terrible year for many legacy media companies. Facebook also entered the market in October with Portal, a new screen-based device, which contains Alexa voice functionality as well as its proprietary voice recognition for video calling. The Guardian announced one million ‘supporters’ over the last three years (via donation or membership) and are on the verge of breaking even, after years of heavy losses. Charlie Beckett, who runs the Polis project at the LSE, will also be exploring these issues for a new Google-supported project focused on research and AI training for newsrooms. For their part, governments have also come to recognise that platforms are not utilities (like telecoms) nor are they publishers (like newspapers). Now these AI driven apps are spreading across Asia with Newsdog one of the most popular aggregators in India and Toutiao’s owners, Bytedance, investing in similar apps in Indonesia. A bit like Chinese bikes for hire, many of these relatively cheap devices will be cast aside, or just left to gather dust. Trusted news sources are now prioritised around breaking news, while it plans to add more contextual information on news sourcing and around historic conspiracy theories like the ‘fake moon landings’. Breitbart, for example, is labelled red because it ‘sometimes distorts or omits facts to fit its agenda’. Would you trust a computer to rate your skin? Selected stories are professionally read. These are billed as an antidote to the current glut of quick, shallow, and reactive coverage. Election flashpoints: Polls this year in India and Indonesia will be key tests of social media’s new defences. Expect more publishers to sign up in 2019. The problem is that there is no real consensus on the different problems to be addressed, never mind on how these could be solved. For technical and IT staff, we struggle to meet market levels (pay, conditions, career opportunities). Gender awareness thread; gender equality tracker (United States). Sharp declines in print revenue have hit the bottom line with digital unable to make up the difference. Polypropylene Market 2019 Global Industry Size, Share, Trends, key Players Analysis, Applications, Forecasts to 2026 Nehal Chinoy - February 8, 2021 - Business , News , Sci-Tech , … The Comprova project, an alliance of 24 newsrooms, started a WhatsApp ‘tip line’ where ordinary people could send information to be checked. Verizon is leading the charge in the US, hoping to offer 5G coverage, while in the UK the West Midlands is getting £75m of public money to trial the new technology. Our own study suggested that the take up of news content was disappointing. Snapchat is also expanding its Shows feature to around 17 premium content partners in the UK28 and will be creating a space for Shows and Snapchat Originals within the Discover portal. Which news anchor is real? RISJ Smart speaker survey (Sept 2018) Q. So what might give in the year ahead? The issue of gender equality has been a focus in the last year in the UK where media companies were forced to reveal pay gaps between men and women for the first time. Changing journalistic practice: Expect more journalists to follow the example of Bloomberg business reporter Ben Bartenstein who found that only 13% of his interviewees were female and set out to remedy that – achieving his 50% target by proactively seeking out new and more diverse sources. Digital leaders survey, N=192. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. China’s state news agency, Xinhua, has unveiled a robotic news anchor that is ‘ego-free and always ready for work’. Executive summary. For the 14 th edition of Deloitte’s Digital media trends survey, we launched our initial survey at the end of 2019… First Draft research shows that misleading content is often discussed first in the anonymous web (4chan and Discord), then co-ordinated in closed or semi-closed networks (WhatsApp or Facebook groups), is then socialised in conspiracy communities (Reddit forums, YouTube channels), before being seeded in a co-ordinated way in public networks like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Source: Poynter Institute, Daniel Funke (October 2018). The findings of 30th edition of the World Press Trends report underscores the ongoing conundrum of the industry: Overall global revenues in 2018 continued to shrink as did many newsrooms, yet paying audiences and demand for quality news … This at a time when the relative status and pay of journalists has declined compared with other professions. Publishers would prefer to integrate their own paywalls and price points within the Apple News app. At its peak it was dealing with 2,000 messages a day, but the project could only check a fraction of those. World Press Trends 2019: The balancing act of publishers. Eventually this will open up a new category of public transport, a business that is projected to be worth $285bn within ten years.56. 5G networks can transfer data dozens of times faster than the fourth-generation networks in use now. After three months of news and information, 64% of U.S. adults say the CDC mostly gets the facts about the outbreak right; 30% say the same about President Trump and his administration. In our survey the extent of this pivot has become clear. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) skills will become ever more important in 2019 following Google’s decision to put a news feed (called Discover) on the main search page of all mobile browser for the first time. Digital leaders survey 2019, N=163. The BBC streamed all 33 World Cup games in VR with its app downloaded more than 300,000 times. Which, if any, of the following devices do you ever use (for any purpose)? One inspiration for ‘slow, thoughtful’ news came from the Dutch start-up De Correspondent, which is now taking the idea to the United States and is due to launch in mid-2019. Publishers think audio represents a big opportunity in 2019. Expect to see more labelling initiatives in 2019, though they will inevitably be subject to partisan attack and may struggle to scale and keep up-to-date. Subscription-based publishers are increasingly looking at social media as a marketing and acquisition channel, not primarily as a place to engage users with content. And these winner-takes-all dynamics in the advertising market have hit digital-born brands in the last year with venture capitalists looking to firesale their media investments. It is encouraging to see a number of start-ups this year (Civil, Tortoise, De Correspondent, and Kinzen) focusing on building strong communities from the start – as well as emphasising values and principles that will underpin their journalism. The latest NHK experiment, Yomiko, was designed by a leading manga artist and has the personality of a fresh-faced cub reporter. Newsguard is a new venture that aims to rate (as green or red) every significant site in the United States. Apple gears up for more bundling; Amazon Prime deals with the Washington Post. Removing or demoting unreliable sources, raising digital literacy, improving journalistic standards and better labelling will all help but lasting solutions will require platforms, publishers and governments to work together for years to come. News UK, Telegraph Media Group, the Guardian, and Reach/Trinity Mirror plan to develop Ozone, which is building a technology stack for advertising. Which, if any, of the following devices do you ever use (for any purpose)? Showing smart speaker code. It has continued to work with fact-checkers to identify problematic content, claiming that the visibility of identified content has reduced by 80%.18 At the same time it has boosted the prominence of ‘trusted news sources’ in its algorithms, based on surveys of Facebook users. Tortoise is targeting 40,000 paying subscribers by the end of the year, but will supplement this with sponsorship and regular live events. Others are prioritising channels on the basis of monetisation potential, which may explain why YouTube also scores well in our survey. The explosion of content and the intensity of the 24-hour news cycle have put huge pressure on individual journalists over the last few years. The Ozone Project is a standalone (non-profit) business that is trying to solve issues that affect everyone – saving time and money for all. China, for example, is opening a new state of the art European TV hub in west London at the start of 2019 and will be pumping out news with a Chinese perspective in multiple languages – even as western news agencies and media companies are forced to scale back their foreign reporting: The Governments in countries which are currently not [at] the forefront of liberalism show great interest in providing money for media. Last year 72% of publishers said they were experimenting with AI, but this year we can expect to see more real life deployment. Fast facts about the newspaper industry’s financial struggles as McClatchy files for bankruptcy U.S. newspaper circulation fell in 2018 to its lowest level since 1940, and newspaper revenues declined … For many publications this will require different skills, new metrics, and an emphasis on higher quality content that is worth paying for. Rate your level of concern about the following issues (showing code for ‘concerned’ and ‘very concerned’). News organisations have traditionally been competitive, but should that change? Our survey shows respondents think that investment in AI (78%) and more journalists (85%) is needed to help meet future challenges – but with strongest preferences heavily stacked in favour of humans. There are two major unknowns at this point – the extent to which consumers are actually into this thing, and whether or not it’s a genuine commercial opportunity. More relevant to news was the global launch of Facebook Watch in 2018, part of its strategy to move into longer form video. The only obvious challenge for growing firms is the dropping unemployment rate, which may hit a record 3.5 per cent in 2019. In general broadcasters are bullish and newspapers more cautious. The industry should do more to save itself. Engineers and former engineers are having second thoughts about the ethics of ‘designing for addiction’, using notifications that are dripping with dopamine, or surfacing content that pushes us apart. Something gives at Snapchat: The youth-focused network is set to make a loss of around $1.5b in 2019 as it tries to rebuild its user base after a series of product mistakes.27 Snapchat has lost millions of users in 2018 to Instagram, which cloned many of its ideas for filters and mobile-friendly stories. A new ‘simpler’ token sale is a planned for 2019.55. In November the New York Times immersive team captured the Statue of Liberty torch, ahead of its move for restoration. Its latest high profile project was running a Facebook group that brought together 400 women with very different political views ahead of the US mid-term elections. Scepticism about the sustainability of the buzz around podcasts was fuelled by Buzzfeed’s decision to cut its in-house podcast team in 2018, as well as editorial lay offs at Audible Originals and Panoply. GDPR forced publishers to clean up their permissions and processes (a good thing), but the wider benefits are harder to see. The Brazilian elections were something of a test case for whether it is possible to track and debunk misleading information in WhatsApp. In addition to incentivising donations and subscriptions, commercial companies will be able to claim tax credits in return for publishing a ‘variety of news and information of interest to Canadians’.41 But others worry that relying on government money is ultimately a slippery slope that will undermine journalistic independence. These technologies have significant potential to make existing processes quicker and more efficient, but also to create output that was previously not viable. We need a mix of both AI and human intelligence. Our own research shows that under-35s are between three and five times more likely to consume podcasts compared with traditional speech radio. The ‘news feed’ is in many ways a hangover from the desktop era, whereas stories are made for mobile screens, demand more visual storytelling skills and rely heavily on the personality of the reporter.26 Publishers looking to attract younger audiences in particular will need to develop more of these skills in 2019. In our survey of 200 editors, CEOs, and digital leaders: I’m surprised about the potential of audio and voice for journalism. Samsung will join the party with its own range of speakers and screens powered by Bixby while Chinese, Korean and Russian tech giants have also developed their own range of branded devices with underlying AI assistants. As news outlets morph and multiply, both surveys and passive data collection tools face challenges. Survey Country Mix (Percentage) | Survey Job Titles (Number). Based on what happened when Germany passed a similar provision, some expect publishers to give major platforms the right to use snippets of content for free, but the details are unclear, as are the implications for large platforms, news aggregators and smaller start-ups and even news organisations that curate content from competitors. Over half of publishers (55%) rated a Facebook property (Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp) as ‘very’ or ‘extremely’ important compared with nine in ten (90%) for Google search and YouTube combined. Voice-activated technology/audio will be one of several platforms, suited for certain types of news consumption (morning briefing for example). Some publishers report a growing tension between the pay levels of technical staff and those of journalists. With Belarus33 and Kenya34 already attracting criticism for the arbitrary nature of their ‘fake news’ laws, the fear is that authoritarian leaders everywhere will be tempted to use public concern over misinformation to silence legitimate questions and increase government control over journalists and social media networks. WhatsApp status is also a story format, Netflix (movie previews) and YouTube have been experimenting with stories (originally called reels) and AMP stories debuted last year as an open web version that sits on top of some Google searches. Could less journalism be better for society and create more impact? In India the limits are even tighter while a ‘quick forward’ button next to media messages has been removed. With the adoption of IoT, the printing industry would experience more advanced devices resulting in the easier overall workflow. The Guardian, which has 1.2m followers on Instagram, has developed a series of recurring story series including ‘Fake or For Real’, which explores a fake story before debunking it, and Brexit Bites – condensing and explaining latest developments in story format. Vox media cut around 50 jobs mainly focused on social video. Little Things, which built its business on sharing inspirational stories about humans and pets, was the first casualty after its organic reach dropped 75%, while other traditional publishers reported falls of 20% or more. And in France, Mediapart celebrated its tenth year with profits of €2.4m off a subscription base of 140,000. Politico experimented with an eight week series of explainers and tools aimed at educating younger voters. Easy payment for premium content from Agate. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/17/why-silicon-valley-cant-shake-accusations-of-anticonservative-bias.html, 8 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/nov/29/mail-online-ad-revenues-overtake-print-for-first-time, 9 https://www.cjr.org/the_new_gatekeepers/mic-layoffs.php, 10 Newman et al. The bane of newspaper delivery people everywhere, the Sunday paper saw circulation rates reach as high as a million copies as of April 2019. Even technology leaders are looking to add more functions to such devices. Which, if any, of the following have you used in the last week for news? Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2014-18, Q12b. Could it help secure the future of journalism? The Times of London has added a one-year Wall Street Journal subscription for existing subscribers while telecom and OTT video providers also experimented with adding news to their bundles. Decade-long decline in newsroom employment hit midcareer workers the hardest. Though millions of smart speakers were unwrapped at Christmas, the story of the coming year is likely to be the spread of voice assistants outside the home and to many more languages. This could be an appealing consumer proposition but successful paywall publishers will be extremely wary of cannibalising existing businesses. The network has broken more than 30 exclusive stories, including an investigation into council finances, which revealed that half of the councils in England planned to cut children’s services. Expect tech companies to offer more and clearer controls over data this year. Platforms push further into video and TV: Online video is set to be a key battleground as platforms try to grab a share of the rapidly rising OTT (over-the-top) market. Watch out for foldable phones and 5G capable handsets. Some media companies are hoping governments will help them with tax breaks or other direct subsidy, as the Canadian government has just done to the tune of CAN$600m over five years. Reducing ‘time spent’ is a challenging concept for under pressure media companies, especially those that are mainly funded by advertising. 200 people completed a closed survey in December 2018. 40 DAFNE data, 2017 via the European Journalism Centre. It also provides a more detailed ‘nutrition label’ write-up on 4,500 English language websites. Meanwhile radio broadcasters report difficulties in retaining editorial talent with the boom in podcasts opening up new opportunities for presenters and producers. But these publisher-led strategies are likely to meet considerable consumer resistance in 2019. But the scale and complexity of the task ahead is immense. This is an alternative vision of reader payment that ensures the widest possible access to scoops like Cambridge Analytica11 and the Windrush Scandal.12. But as the experience of Mic.com shows, relying on platforms can be a high-risk strategy, after the company effectively folded when the money for Facebook Watch shows was pulled. Only 1% said that news was the most important feature, compared with 64% who cited playing music and 7% checking the weather. Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World, 1615 L St. NW, Suite 800Washington, DC 20036USA Crop Year in Review: 2019-20 Global Shipments and Trends 9/1/2020 As California almond growers consistently produce yields at record or near-record levels year after year, it … (Urban sample). It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts. Some are learning about subscription for the first time, others have been building up their community for years: We have more than 12,000 subscriptions, but growing subscriptions is not an easy task in a country where there is no culture of payment for digital content. Interestingly, Apple News (43%) is now considered as important as Facebook, with some publishers reporting sharp increases in traffic. For the majority of our publishers, subscription (52%) is now the main priority for the year ahead, followed by display advertising (27%), native advertising (8%), and donations/crowdsourcing from individuals (7%). This is much more contentious and the association with volatile crypto currencies is likely to distract from the potential of these technologies – a situation which is likely to persist through 2019. All this will make it easier to access existing linear radio, podcasts, audio books and streaming music services in more places and in more convenient ways. De Correspondent is billed as an antidote to the endless scroll of digital platforms and the stream of news notifications. At the beginning of the year Mark Zuckerberg pledged to ‘fix Facebook’ and a huge amount of engineering resource has been deployed, fact-checking and media literacy programmes have been funded, along with support for local journalism in some countries.2 Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have all spent increasing amounts of money on taking down content and targeting ‘bad actors’ and even extending the definition of unacceptable content. By July the crisis spread to WhatsApp with false rumours about child abduction in India leading to a series of lynchings4. Tapping into the idea that people want to spend time with more meaningful media, it aims to create daily routines that are time limited, personalised, and mind broadening. Misinformation is no longer about completely false news, but rather a constant drip, drip, drip of ‘misleading content designed to deepen divisions in society’. Folding phones could double screen size. One consequence of the shift in business models is the focus on developing loyalty and retention, which is why newsletters are making a comeback, with more publishers reclaiming them from marketing teams. But while voice makes accessing existing media more efficient, it’s not so good at expressing complex outputs or allowing navigation within audio experiences. This has already proved one of the most effective ways of down-ranking false news, but this year we may start to see more systematic approaches gaining traction. Q10. In January Facebook announced it would show less publisher content in the news feed in favour of ‘meaningful interactions’. Much of the early usage has gone to default broadcasters like the BBC in the UK, ABC in Australia, and ARD in Germany, leaving little traffic for others.