predictions
Predicting journalism’s 2018 - goodbye platforms, hello AI, and talking with Alexa Paid Members Public
Oh, happy day. Those of us in the online journalism development business get an annual present a little later than Christmas. January is when Nic Newman’s annual Journalism, Media, and Technology Trends and Predictions report hits. Today’s the day. I haven’t had the time to dive into
Claire Enders, Schrödinger's Cat and the death of local newspapers Paid Members Public
There’s a weird triumphalism is the air this morning, as Hold The Front Page points out that Claire Enders’ famous prediction five years ago that half of the UK’s local newspapers would be dead by now [http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2014/news/editors-blog-why-claire-enders-was-wrong-about-newspaper-closures/] : > Obtaining a precise figure
The Art of Prediction Paid Members Public
Isabel Davies of Farmers Weekly [http://www.fwi.co.uk/] has been diving through the archives of the mag, and has blogged about a startlingly bad piece of prediction in one report from the 1960s [http://www.fwi.co.uk/blogs/farming-news-blog/2007/09/farmers-weekly-a-look-into-the-archives.html] …
