Article in The Columbia Journalism Review by Editors, 1/2/25

Headline:  “What We’re Watching in 2025”

Subhead:  “CJR’s staff on the trends they’ll be following in the year ahead.”

“New year, new me-dia? As 2025 dawns, familiar challenges are heaving into view for the press: how to cover an administration led by Donald Trump; how to meet news consumers where they are; whether we’re even relevant anymore. And yet the contours of such challenges are new, or greater in scope than before—or, at least, hard to predict going forward. Trump could graduate from (mostly) rhetorical media-bashing and use the hard power of the state to curb newsgathering in novel and chilling ways; questions of media relevance, meanwhile, have reached a fever pitch since the election, when new media, in the literal sense, was widely credited with facilitating Trump’s victory. To kick off the new year, CJR staffers and contributors outline the trends they’ll be watching in 2025—in old and new media venues alike, as well as across the worlds of tech, the right-wing ‘griftosphere,’ and, well, the world.

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/2025_what_watching_journalism_media.php