Abstract:
This research aims to study the scenario of a brand of television news programmes in Thailand in the next decade (2021 2030) , conducted by using the EDFR (Ethnographic Delphi Futures Research) methodology, divided into 2 steps: 1) Qualitative data collection from in-depth interviews by interviewing 21 experts, namely 10 television media organisation executives, 3 online media organisation executives, 2 professional media organisation executives, and 6 academics in Communications Science, to be obtain a desirable future image of television news programmes in Thailand in the next decade. The results of the study found that the scenario of a brand of television news programmes in Thailand in the next decade (2021 2030) consists of 6 aspects i.e., 1) Vision: aim to deliver news that responds to new generation, focus on earning with a membership and admission fee model. 2) Culture: 2.1) News organisations: must focus on fact-checking, focus on the arts of television news production, such as filming, editing, using graphics in presentation, the editorial team works agile, compact, requires fewer people, has specialised professionals, for instance, data scientists, create a journalist with a wide range of expertise, produce news in a form of convergence of all media and platforms together, working in collaboration with other positions and other organisations, create a fan club for news programmes. 2.2) Journalists: have skills in searching information, interested in the use of technology in news media, have multitasking skills, ability to work across multiple platforms, skilled in cross-media storytelling, presenting news with digital literacy skills. 3) Marketing Position: meet the needs of a niche audience, create interactions with audiences with news that makes audiences smile. 4) Personality: determined according to the personality of the audience (persona), has a casual character, informal, approachable, agile, being a new generation, informational entertainment, has innovative, good at technology, strong enough, friendly, tell a story in a fun and understandable way. 5) Relationship: presenting content that connects to all platforms, interact with the audience, create real time engagement, including an online community platform to create fan clubs, create a news playlist format, use social listening to create a news programme, build a journalist brand or news anchor brand, create a channel for people in the online world to report news. 6) Presentation: 6.1) Content: set a content that meets the needs of the target group (niche) with content that is connected to the audiences experience, contain interesting guests. 6.2) Presentation method: use a narrative style, use technology in presentations such as AI Drone Geo-Location, focusing on news images, editing, artistic production process that fascinating, memorisable, easy to understand, prioritise the content according to the needs of the audience, including a style according to the target audiences taste and designed for the audiences to engage in reporting.