State of News in 2018 - Presentations for NYU/ITP's class: Future Scenarios and Systems Thinking. Gabriel Brasil - New York - March 2018

1. NEWS NOW
Journalism in 2018

2. NEWS NOW
News in Crisis - Credibility

3. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis
• Credibility Crisis
• Fake News
• Censorship
• Revenue Slump
• Crash of the Plataform Model

4. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis - Introduction

5. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis - Introduction

6. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis - Introduction

7. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis – Introduction - Platforms

8. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis - Credibility
Drop in Trust
“Media is the least trusted institution”
- Reuters Report

9. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis - Credibility
Edelman Trust Report 2018

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Edelman Trust Report 2018
News in Crisis - Credibility

11. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis - Credibility
Credibility Crisis
“Wehave brokentheMediaIndustrybecausewe
have brokentheconfidenceof ouraudience”
- Reuters Report
“Ourworkdepress them”
- Reuters Report

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Reuters Report
News in Crisis - Credibility

13. NEWS NOW
Reuters Report
News in Crisis - Polarization

14. NEWS NOWTrust in Journalism
Drop in Trust
“People trust platform less,
trust journalism more”
- ABC news on the Edelman Trust Report 2018

15. Edelman Trust Report 2018
NEWS NOWTrust in Journalism

16. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis – Fake News
• Viewers Perspective
• One of degree rather than clear distinction
• Identify more as “propaganda”, “bad advertising”, more than
deliberate false information
• Think is a “buzzword” used by politicians and media companies
• Mistrust in all institutions
• Believe there are trusted sources, but don’t agree where
Nielsen – Oxford – Reuters report “News you don’t believe”: Audience perspectives on fake news

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News in Crisis - Censorship

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Freedom of the Press 2017 – Reporters without borders
News in Crisis - Censorship

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Reuters Report
News in Crisis - Credibility

20. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis - Censorship
“Donald Trum doesn’t have a monopoly of
Media Bashing”
- Reporters without Borders
But neither does countries that are not liberal
democracies

21. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis - Censorship
• Decline in Respect for Media Freedom: From
China and Iran, to Germany and Canada
• Economical Censorship: Monopolies
• Rise of Strongmen
• Violence

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Freedom of the Press 2017 – Reporters without borders
News in Crisis - Censorship

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News in Crisis - Revenue

24. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis - Revenue
• Facebook “Pivot to user” Crisis
• Publishers “First Sin: Not Charging for Digital
Content” – Alan D. Mutter
• Second Sin: “Trusting Platforms” – Peter Houston /
FIPP

25. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis - Revenue
“Information wants to be free....
...but it also want’s to be expensive”
- StewaBrt Brand
- THE PAYWALL STRIKES BACK

26. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis - Revenue

27. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis - Roundup
• Media Companies lack trust, but trust on
journalism is on the rise
• Declining trust in Platforms (Facebook)
• Rise in Censorhip throughout the world
• Drop in Advertising revenue is pushing News
behind Paywalls
• Need for transparency

28. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis - Roundup
• Rise of new models of revenues for local
newspapers
• Interest in longform and investigative journalism
• Independent Journalism survives under
censorship

29. NEWS NOWNews Now - THANK YOU

30. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis - Sources
NYU Library guide: https://guides.nyu.edu/c.php?g=276796&p=1846000
Reuters Digital News Report - http://www.digitalnewsreport.org/
http://www.worldsofjournalism.org"
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2016-10-12/chinas-new-media
How can media companies predict the future of news? - Francesco Marconi / Associated Press -
“Publishing for Peanuts - Innovation and the Journalism Start-up” International Media, Advocacy, and
Communications / Columbia http://www.cima.ned.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/PublishingforPeanuts.pdf
Membership Puzzle Project - Jay Rosen: Associated Prof NYU https://membershippuzzle.org/about/
TOW center for Digital Journalism - Columbia University https://www.cjr.org/tow-center
The World Press Freedom Index - Reporters Without Frontiers - https://rsf.org/en/ranking
“How VR will impact Journalism” - Associated Press Insights - https://insights.ap.org/

31. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis - Sources
“People trust platforms less, trust journalism more, study says” - CBS News -
Edelman Trust Barometer 2018 - Edelman http://cms.edelman.com/sites/default/files/2018-
02/2018_Edelman_Trust_Barometer_Global_Report_FEB.pdf
“Social vs. Traditional Media: Has the Battle Already Ended?” - MyPRSA:Public Relations Society of America
“Learning from the New Yorker, Wired’s new paywall aims to build a more “stable financial future” - Nieman Lab
“It’s ‘all’ about reader revenues, say Innovation Report editors” - FIPP - International Federation of Periodical
Publishers
China Profile - Media - BBC - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-13017881
State of the News Media 2016 - Pew Research
CRFA Industry Report - Media (link to location on google drive)

32. NEWS NOWNews in Crisis - Sources
Media landscape in China: social media as the most important source of collecting information” - News Aktuel DE
/ Deutsche Presse Agentur
“China's New Media - Pushing Political Boundaries Without Being Political” - Foreign Affairs Magazine
The State of Journalism - PEW Research