In his weekly Monday Note, French media veteran Frederic Filloux paints a bleak picture for the future of digital news.
He focuses on what he calls four facts: advertising will not suffice for some time, people are flocking to social media over news media, money will shift to mobile and lean-back devices like the iPad, and a small group of gatekeepers will control the platforms and operating systems guiding them.
He concludes that this shift will accelerate the creation of paywalls, that many media firms will try to capitalize through access to all their platforms for a fee, that small firms may flourish but that the free. flourishing Internet will wither. He also believes regulators will have their hands full trying to deal with content and economic issues.
He focuses on what he calls four facts: advertising will not suffice for some time, people are flocking to social media over news media, money will shift to mobile and lean-back devices like the iPad, and a small group of gatekeepers will control the platforms and operating systems guiding them.
He concludes that this shift will accelerate the creation of paywalls, that many media firms will try to capitalize through access to all their platforms for a fee, that small firms may flourish but that the free. flourishing Internet will wither. He also believes regulators will have their hands full trying to deal with content and economic issues.
