World Press Trends 2023–24: Comprehensive business outlook
Insights from 175 news executives worldwide reveal cautious optimism, with revenues projected to rise, digital transformation ongoing and purportedly stable relationships with platforms
This is an extract from the WAN-IFRA’s annual flagship report, World Press Trends Outlook 2023–2024. You can read the Executive Summary here, and the Global Snapshot of Key Performance Indicators.
In this opening section, we examine our survey respondents’ attitudes toward the current media landscape and their view of the trajectory that news organisations can expect to experience over the next few years.
Theme 1: Cautious optimism
Despite the numerous challenges and persistent uncertainties that they face, publishers are feeling more optimistic as they approach 2024, particularly in contrast to the same period last year when there was significant apprehension. Furthermore, their optimism extends to the long-term future, despite the continued unpredictability of what lies ahead.
Many of the issues we highlighted last year — such as rising inflation, high energy and paper costs, as well as the continued economic and…
