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What the Start of 2025 Might Tell us

We are, somehow, coming to the end of the first month of 2025. While I’m loathed to do predictions, mainly because I always get them wrong, I thought I’d share a few brief thoughts on what January might tell us about the media year to come.

Firstly, obviously, Trump. I wrote about it the 47th President on Tuesday and once a week is more than enough. The media in the US and beyond needs to rise to the challenge though. And could the last person out of the Washington Post please remember to turn out the lights?

We have also seen over the last couple of week’s that there will continue to be reorganisation and upheaval within the legacy media. Friend of The Addition Ben Mullin reported on cuts and shake-ups at CNN. It’s hardly going out on a limb to say that it will not be the only media organisation where that happens. Cutting newsrooms and going on about AI is not going to provide the robust report the world needs.

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