Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2023

Report

This annual Reuters Institute predictions report looks at the key trends that will impact news media in 2023. It argues that this will be a year of heightened concerns about the sustainability of some media against a backdrop of rampant inflation, and a deep squeeze on household spending. First-generation social networks like Facebook and Twitter are struggling to retain audiences as older people get bored and younger users migrate to new networks like TikTok. We’ll see further moves in the media towards subscription and membership, publishers will continue to invest in podcasts and newsletters. Extraordinary advances in artificial intelligence (AI) in 2022 offers the chance for publishers to deliver more personal information and formats, to help deal with channel fragmentation and information overload. But these new technologies will also bring existential and ethical questions – along with more deep fakes, deep porn, and other synthetic media.

Authors: Newman, N

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: Reuters Insitute for the Study of Journalism
• Place of publication: Oxford
• Publication date: 2023-01-10
• DOI: 10.5287/bodleian:NokooZeEP
• ISBN: 978-1-914566-05-9
• Language: English
• Keywords: innovation; business models; trends; video; audio
• Subjects: Social media and journalism; Journalism