Ranking of the Factors Affecting the Future of IRIB News Agency in 5-Year Horizon

Due to new communication technologies and emerging platforms, the news industry has entered a complex and highly competitive environment. Therefore, the future is a challenge and concern for news media executives. They always try to think about the factors affecting the future and their possible situations to achieve possible images of the future ahead. Although the IRIB news agency is one of the most important and large news agencies in the country, but it is certainly not immune to these challenges. Hence, it is necessary to identify the factors affecting the future of the IRIB news agencies. The importance of recognizing these factors and prioritizing their effectiveness is that any policy and strategic planning depends on recognizing these factors. For this purpose, with the Delphi method, as a common method in future research and with purposeful sampling, the expert views of 19managers, editors, and researchers of the political deputy of the IRIB based on the principle of theoretical saturation were used. After two stages of Delphi and identifying the most important and uncertain factors, and after taking the geometric average, the most important factors affecting the future of the IRIB News Agency were prioritized: the degree of professional and managerial independence of the IRIB News Agency, Ability of journalists to create structure and use new methods to understand the taste of the audience accurately.