The document discusses the future of news media and provides 9 key points about changes in the industry. It notes that news is becoming both faster and slower, bigger and smaller. Resources are increasing but revenues are decreasing. While news institutions are both too weak, due to financial pressures, and too strong, due to their established brands. Journalism is both more open, because anyone can publish information, and more closed, because established organizations still control major distribution channels. The document advocates for journalism that is objective but also creative and emotional. It encourages connecting with the audience through curiosity about important issues and quality storytelling.

1. The future of news is dead,
long live the future of news
Prof Charlie Beckett Feb 2016

5. 9 Things You Need To Know About
The Future Of News

6. 1. Abundance Needs Curation

7. 2. Quality Must Be Blended

11. 3. News Is Getting Faster And
Slower

12. 4. News Is Getting Bigger And
Smaller

13. 5. There Is More Resource And
Less

14. 6. News Institutions Are Too Weak
And Too Strong

15. •
• “...the old question – what, really, is a newspaper? –
remains key. If the answer is simply a means of
transmitting information, titles are merely nostalgia.
No, the proper answer is that a decent newspaper is a
platoon of similarly minded, but not identically
minded, people who argue, debate and together
fashion a view of the world which is distinctive. A
newspaper, properly understood, is the space between
what editors and senior correspondents think, and how
that space is challenged by reporters bringing in
unexpected information; and the static energy all that
produces”
• Andrew Marr, The Guardian, 13.2.16

16. 7. Journalism Is Too Open And Too
Closed

17. 8. The Public Sphere Is Dead, Long
Live Public Journalism

18. 9. Journalism should be objective.
And creative and emotional…
Curiosity
Content
Critical
Creativity

19. Let’s get emotional

20. Connect with me
• C.h.beckett@lse.ac.uk
• @CharlieBeckett
• Polis has a blog and a website
• Annual Conference April 21st