The BBC releases the first report from its Future of News project

This is pretty high-level, and because it’s about the BBC and the United Kingdom, it might seem a little foreign to American eyes, but I think it’s worth reading this Journalism.co.uk summary of the first report from the BBC Future of News project.

If you want to go deep on the report itself, it’s here in the form of “an immersive story told through text, images and video.”

This is good for our ongoing project of keeping up with the media biz.

Journalism.co.uk says the takeaways from the report, which according to the introduction aims to “consider the Future of News over the decade to come,” are:

• News will be more accessible, everywhere
• Increased automation in journalism
• Better collaboration
• Video is here to stay
• … and so is data journalism

The introduction also includes a selection of quotes from people around the industry about the future of the news industry. Here’s my favorite, from Caitlin Moran of The Times: “If we invented the news tomorrow, it would not be a half hour report at 6 o’clock.”

If tomorrow, we invented whatever it is you’re doing, what would it look like?