In this post focused on journalism ‘What will a post-COVID-19 media look like? I asked my students‘, Frederic Filloux makes the point that in the future, media outlets will be smaller organizations increasingly run as a group.
Crisis are known to accelerate natural trends and it is quite interesting to observe that in the current situation which allows to seek new foundations, the idea that with the new technology, smaller outlets could be more successful is quite interesting.
“The media outlets that will emerge from the global crisis will be lightweight, decentralized, less reliant on advertising, and will bring more explanations and expertise to the table”; and probably they will be also more niche and focused.
Add to the discussion that smaller outfits are also more prone to be generative rather than extractive, and this gives a vision of a new organisational ecosystem that is increasingly focused on making people grow rather than to exploit and produce profit. A quite comforting picture of our common future!
