The future technologies of journalism

Abstract

The practice of journalism has undergone many changes in the last few years, with changes in technology being the main driver of these changes. We present a future study where we aim to get an understanding of what technologies will become important for the journalist and further change the journalist’s workplace. The new technological solutions will have to be implemented in the media houses’ information systems, and knowledge about what technologies will have the greatest impact will influence IS strategies in the media house. In the study we interviewed 16 experts on how they envision the future technologies of the journalist. We analyzed the interviews with a qualitative research approach. Our analysis shows that technologies for multi-platform news production, automated news content generation, cloud services for flexible production, content search, and content verification are the most important in terms of needs and competitiveness.