News analysis

Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2025

reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk · last updated
News organisations are braced for multiple challenges in 2025 that will likely include further attacks from hostile politicians, continued economic headwinds, and battles to protect intellectual property in the face of rapacious AI-driven platforms.

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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.

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With copyright questions already complicated by the emergence of the web in the 1990s, artificial intelligence raised the stakes to a new level.

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