Newsonomics: 10 questions we’ll be talking about into 2016

As we head deeper into the annual bloodletting that is news media budgeting for the new year, here are 10 of my top questions that I think we’ll talking about into 2016.... (my faves): Vice, Vox Media, and BuzzFeed have seen hundreds of millions in investment... we have word that Business Insider will test reader revenue... Who will follow suit?... Axel Springer is testing a major convergence of its own: WeltN24... 2016 will represent the big test of news convergence, as the staffs of its national quality daily Die Welt and its recent acquisition n24 merge. IBM's Watson and its next-gen natural language cognitive computing systems can — and I believe will — change how news itself can be produced and presented... Every successful publisher will also soon have to be a data science company to succeed... most digital pages ... may be doing a better job of telling us the news of the day, or the moment, but they show far too little context and relevant related information. ... the tools just haven’t been available, despite worthy experiments like Circa... if news companies can unlock the deep and wide value of their related content — and relevant archives — their digital products will become greatly more valuable to news readers - Newsonomics: Here are 10 questions we’ll be talking about into 2016 » Nieman Journalism Lab