The press realizes where it's failed and starts to change

"What follows is less a prediction than a hope: that the press will begin in the next year to finally recognize the true nature of its failure and begin to change the nature of the journalism it offers the public. The most common explanation for the crisis in journalism is that the advertising revenue that once financed news has largely gravitated to a few internet platform companies that produce nothing."

"The root of journalism's collapse is not largely, or even fundamentally, economic or technological. It is intellectual. Thirty years after the development of the public internet, journalism is still offering a largely 20th-century product insufficient and ill-suited to the 21st century. And blaming that failure on technology only encourages the news industry to avoid making the deeper conceptual changes required for a responsible press to reconnect with a skeptical public."

"Here is journalism's deeper problem: Much of what made the press indispensable in the 20th century - that helped people navigate their days, live their lives, and improve their communities - was not the journalism but what surrounded it. You couldn't know what movie to see or TV show to watch without the listings. You couldn't sell a bike or buy a house or rent without the classifieds. Or be sure if it might rain without the latest TV or radio weather forecast."

Advertising revenue shifted to a few internet platforms and federal deregulation enabled partisan propaganda, weakening newsroom finances and public trust. Those factors are real but describe symptoms rather than root causes. The fundamental failure is intellectual: journalism continues to produce a 20th-century product that no longer meets modern public needs. Services that once surrounded news—listings, classifieds, weather—have migrated elsewhere, reducing the press's everyday usefulness. Journalists frequently neglected practical audience needs and over-romanticized monitoring power, limiting effectiveness. Reconnecting a skeptical public requires deep conceptual change in the goals, formats, and civic utility of journalism.

Read at Nieman Lab