SINGAPORE - Amid increasing competition for eyeballs in the changing media landscape, the merger of online publication Today with CNA may make financial sense, but could also result in even less diversity in the local media landscape, analysts told The Straits Times.
At the time, Today deputy chief edutor Loh Chee Kong, who is now chief editor of Today and CNA Digital, had said in interviews that the paper would be focusing on millennials aged 25 to 34. While Today will retain its social media pages after the merger, its app and website will no longer be updated come Oct 1. All links will point to the CNA website and app, where the new content will reside, said Mediacorp in a press release.Concerns about AI, news fatigue flagged in global report on media trends
NUS new media and digital civics researcher Natalie Pang said with fewer newsrooms, there will also be fewer options for publicists and freelance journalists. He added that while the Today and CNA merger makes economic sense, he did not think there would be any appetite for further mergers in the Singapore media landscape.