Successful newsrooms will act more like consultancies than content factories

Successful newsrooms will act more like consultancies than content factories

Every December, after months of travel and conversations in newsrooms around the world, I pause to look for the throughline — the change that matters most. For 2026, that insight came while finishing my latest book, Consulting with Heart. The more I reflected on what great consultants actually do — interpret dreams, distill ideas, nurture the “biography of an idea” — the more I realized something: The future of journalism belongs to newsrooms th…