A CNBC holiday tradition: 13 anonymous media predictions for the new year

The traditional journalism business model has long since collapsed, and news organizations have shrunk or disappeared entirely. While a number of promising experiments are under way, the public has not shown a willingness to buy what news organizations are selling.

Artificial intelligence

As newsrooms struggle with rickety business models and precarious finances — as well as new technologies —  they are deploying an array of editorial responses. 

The Times and its critics  |  Washington Post mortem    

Journalism as a profitable product has been in decline for years, raising the questions of what the news is for and what people are willing to pay for.

A number of tech and journalism organizations examine trends in the year ahead.