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Will social media get boring? Will Amazon conquer? See 23 predictions for journalism in 2012 that may inspire your future. These bright writers weigh in on what may matter most.
Predictions for Journalism 2012 (Nieman Lab)
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- Tags: Emerging Trends, Future of Journalism, Thought Leaders
To close out 2011, we asked some of the smartest people we know to predict what 2012 will bring for the future of journalism.
- Nicholas Carr: 2012 will bring the appification of media
- Dave Winer: We need to improve tech criticism. Here’s how.
- Carrie Brown Smith: The social media bubble may burst…
- Martin Langeveld: A look back at my 2011 predictions…
- Dan Gillmor: 2012 will be the year of the content-controller oligopoly
- Robert Hernandez: For journalism’s future, the killer app is credibility
- Emily Bell: 2012 will be a year of expanded “network sensibility”
- Dan Kennedy: 2012 will bring “the great retrenchment” among newspaper publishers
- Paul Bradshaw: Collaboration! Data! 2012 will see news outlets turning talk into action
- Steve Buttry: From a dropped paywall to a social media Pulitzer, expect a year of transformation
- Vadim Lavrusik: Curation and amplification will become much more sophisticated in 2012
- The Editors: Amazon conquers, Patch dies, a Facebook-only outlet is born…and more predictions for 2012
- Rex Sorgatz: LA is the future (kill me now)
- Burt Herman: In the coming year, social media journalists will #Occupythenews
- Tim Carmody: Next year, Kindles, iPhones, and tablets will truly grow up
- Gina Masullo Chen: Next year, personalization platforms will bring us more choices, not fewer
- Amy Webb: Big data, mobile payments, and identity authentication will be big in 2012
- Ken Doctor: Little-known 2011 “inventions” that will become mainstream in 2012
- Alfred Hermida: 2012 will be the year social media gets boring
- Joshua Young: 2012 will be the year we focus, again, on the writer
- Clara Jeffery: What nonprofit news orgs are betting on for 2012
- Keli Goff: 2012 will be a golden age of minority-focused media
- Rachel Sklar: Filter bubbles burst, blind spots shrunk, curation over SEO: Rachel Sklar’s predictions for 2012” Source: Nieman Lab
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Posted on January 27, 2012
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I just read Ken Doctor’s “fanciful” predictions for products to come in 2012. My favorite is the Infinity Stopper – a device that puts a plug on the endless content stream! Here’s a companion concept: A pillow that feeds everything into your subconscious brain as you sleep. That at night, the Stopper in the daytime and you’ll have a mellow AND informed life!