What is to come?

Year 2005 has left a morbid mark in the printing industry. Perhaps, it was not a pretty good year for it. Or that it has not exerted enough efforts to circumvent today’s changes and demands.

John Burke said in his blog entry entitled Eight 2005 newspaper trends that will continue in 2006: “One would think that after so many developments, positive and negative, that the storm would be ebbing. But 2005 may be just the beginning.”

Below are eight trends that the Editors Weblog feels will have major effects on newsrooms in 2006:

1. Print/Online integration becoming the norm
2. Threats against investigative journalism growing
3. More transparency needed
4. Breaches appearing in the free news ideology
5. News agencies competing with newspapers
6. Social networking: advantages for newspapers
7. Mobile TV threatening mobile news
8. News organizations becoming entertainment companies

These are few of the predictions of the author. Newsroom, newspapers and printing industries are susceptible to changes. One or more of these predictions may be the change/s that will soon invade the media and the printing services.