We don’t know what exactly the future holds, much as we may want to believe we do. Looking at the transformations of the media industry, and at shifting habits of news consumption, maybe we can do something like meteorology, and put together a forecast. In this issue and an accompanying podcast series, we are watching where the wind blows: the way online discourse has embraced debunking, how news delivery has shortened to bullet points and expanded to fill the length of unedited three-hour podcasts, the proliferation of bias monitors cataloguing articles and presenting themselves as arbiters of truth, the appearance of AI-powered widgets that deliver information for the price of data collection, the ascent of the news influencer, the demise of search traffic. Clouds collect over the present. There are a lot of unknowns about the next twenty-five years for journalism. But we can, at least, dress for the weather.