The New Yorker:

A.I., of course—but there were also other, less obvious stories and trends that are going to shape how we understand the news.

By Jay Caspian Kang

Media is a famously myopic and sclerotic industry. The big changes that take place within it often go unnoticed, at first, by the people who are paid to set its future course. Sometimes, the stuff that we in the industry miss out on is obvious to the rest of the world. We were not the first to notice, for example, that features and news stories were being cannibalized by social media, slowly at first, and then thoroughly. Many other changes start small before quickly catching fire—until suddenly you’re looking around and everyone you’ve ever met is working on a nine-episode narrative true-crime podcast.

So what’s happening now, and what’s going to happen next? In the spirit of year-end reflection, here are five stories, trends, and ideas that I think will be quite influential going forward.

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