1. There'll be more iteration than new ideas in 2022
🛠 67% of the news leaders in our sample say their main focus will be in improving existing products. Only 32% say they'll spend most of their time launching new ones
2. Lack of skills and resources seems to be the biggest barrier to innovation
👷♀️ 51% of the news leaders surveyed think the main barriers they encounter are the lack of skills to deliver solutions and the lack of resources. Strategy, not execution seems to be the key problem
3. Habit is the name of the game in 2022
🎙 Most of the news leaders surveyed say they'll focus on podcasts (80%) and newsletters (70%) in the year ahead. Both products create habits and are popular with subscribers. Publishers will also focus on digital video (63%)
4. Publishers will move away from Twitter and Facebook
🕺🏻 News leaders say they'll put more resources into visual platforms such as Instagram, TikTok and YouTube in a move designed to attract younger audiences
5. AI will be important for many publishers in 2022
🤖 More than 80% of our sample say these technologies will be important for better content recommendations and newsroom automation. 69% see AI as critical on the business side in helping to attract and retain customers
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🤖 Google is testing a product that uses artificial intelligence technology to produce news stories, pitching it to news organisations including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal’s owner, News Corp. nytimes.com/2023/07/19/bus…
🧵 Meta’s company strategy is giving lower priority to current affairs and politics on its social media platforms while beginning to also retract news pages from Canada. ft.com/content/8ebb88…
"Exiled journalists are always presented as like personas in the public discourse. But when it comes to the real life experience of being in exile as a journalist, there was a dominance of being abandoned by the international community," says @MLouisaE
"The lack of awareness is extremely frustrating on a personal or emotional level. It translates into basically a total absence of structural support," says @MLouisaE twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
"A free and vibrant media is the foundation for any healthy democracy," says Nic Glicher from @TRF in his introduction #DNR23 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
👎Fewer people are using Facebook for news, with Twitter usage relatively stable in most countries
📱TikTok is gaining even more ground among young audiences
💰The economic downturn is putting further pressure on business models reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-r…
Facebook is becoming much less important as a source of news
👎 Just 28% say they accessed news via Facebook in 2023 compared with 42% in 2016. News usage for Twitter has remained relatively stable, with usage of Mastodon very low. Evolution for each platform in the chart below
🇺🇦 Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a number of journalists and newsrooms have had to flee both Russia and Ukraine in order to keep reporting safely and independently from government influence. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/forced-ex…
🇸🇻 Often exile journalism is the only way independent media under authoritarianism can survive. Recently, Salvadorian newspaper @_elfaro_ announced that it had to move its legal and admin operations due to what they describe as a campaign of gov harassment reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/jailed-ex…
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