The media in 2021: CNN media reporters look ahead to the biggest stories of next year
Reliable Sources
CNN
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🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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How will news outlets adapt to covering Biden after four years of Trump? Will there be major mergers in digital media in 2021? Who will prevail in the streaming Olympics? Oliver Darcy, Donie O'Sullivan, Kerry Flynn, Frank Pallotta and Chloe Melas join Brian Stelter to share predictions about the year ahead, from a right-wing media recalibration to a return to movie theaters.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, enough with 2020. |
| 0:03.0 | Let's look ahead to 2021. |
| 0:06.0 | What will the biggest stories in media be? |
| 0:10.0 | Time for a preview. |
| 0:12.0 | So let's cue the music. This is our weekly Reliable Sources |
| 0:15.5 | podcast edition. I'm Brian Stelter. We use this podcast to go in depth talking |
| 0:21.8 | about how the media world works, and in this case, how it will work |
| 0:26.7 | in the coming year. |
| 0:28.8 | Of course, when I went back and listened to our 2019 podcast, when we previewed the year 2020. We were all so hopeful, so excited, and there was no mention of the pandemic. |
| 0:42.0 | Right, there was no clue about the coronavirus. The virus was not even a story on the |
| 0:48.6 | international stage yet. So with that in mind, acknowledging that predictions oftentimes don't pan out. |
| 0:58.0 | Let's get to the first of our five reporters who are going to look ahead with us today. |
| 1:02.0 | Donio Sullivan, Carrie Flynn, and I know. reporters who are going to look ahead with us today. |
| 1:03.0 | Doniose Sullivan, Carrie Flynn, and Oliver Darcy are with me, all covering various parts of |
| 1:08.9 | the media world, the disinformation space, publishing, all the rest. |
| 1:14.0 | Welcome, everybody. |
| 1:15.0 | Hey, hey Brian. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello. |
| 1:18.0 | Let's look forward. |
| 1:20.0 | All right, Oliver, when you think about 2021, what are the kinds of stories you're expecting to be covering? |
| 1:28.3 | What are you anticipating? |
| 1:29.3 | Well, I think the big one right now, and we've already obviously started to see it start to take shape is the reshaping the landscape in right-wing media and I think we're going to see it in a few pretty big ways. |
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