Jamie Mottram is director of content development at the USA TODAY Sports Media Group, which includes the viral sports site For The Win.
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Reyhan Harmanci Freelancing sucks
Mira Lowe Metrics, smaller screens, and race
Jeanne Brooks More listening, more collaborating
Alisha Ramos Reporters, designers, and developers become BFFs
Rachel Sklar Cut the excuses: Diversity takes work
Katie Zhu The news mixtape
John Herrman The year we finally hear how we sound
Heidi Moore The readers we can’t friend
Matt Dennewitz Ads that keep up with editorial
Cory Haik The year of the reader
Jamie Mottram 160 characters is the new 140 characters
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Many more eyes in the sky
Millie Tran Smart filters on the rise
Robin Sloan BuzzFeed will hire a public editor
Richard Tofel Living on borrowed time
Jacob Harris A wave of P.R. data
Raney Aronson-Rath Finding the right form
Lydia Polgreen More is less (or too much)
Latoya Peterson News in a remix-focused culture
Sarah Marshall The allure of a finishable news experience
Pablo Boczkowski News organizations get serious about research
Jason Parham The rise of the personal-public beef
Dheerja Kaur Content creators are users too
Dayo Olopade Learning from mobile-first markets
Juliette De Maeyer Immersion in (virtual) reality
Ryan Gantz Bad community is worse than no community
Noah Chestnut The first 45 taps
Jer Thorp More data, fewer questions
Katie Park The year you get hacked
Rachel Davis Mersey Reducing the cognitive burden of news
Trushar Barot The rise of digital India
Hayley Nelson Managing assets across platforms
Alberto Cairo Visualization goes mainstream
Errin Haines Race is your beat, too
Aaron Williams Security and subtlety
Matt Thompson The season of seasons
Alfred Hermida The fall and rise of the news bundle
Felix Salmon The beginning of the end of Facebook’s traffic engine
Lauren Henry Scholz Accepting anonymity
Zizi Papacharissi More gonzo, less paywall
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen U.S. tech gets more political worldwide
Robert Hernandez Los Angeles is the content future
Melody Kramer Crowdsourcing the future of news
Emi Kolawole The rise of the jacktivist
Maria Bustillos A return to subscriptions
Aaron Edwards Diversity: Don’t talk about it, be about it
David Sleight What might vs. what should
Paul Ford The capital hook
Sue Schardt The year of yes
Stacy-Marie Ishmael Text-plus, not post-text
Philip Bump The year news notifications need to grow up
Tiff Fehr Disrupt the buzzword backlash
Amy Webb Consumer-aware, context-aware
S. Mitra Kalita Authenticity, expertise, and intimacy
Amanda Hale Native helps pay for the news
Kawandeep Virdee Siphoning from social tech
Matt Waite Fewer and fewer shut-off valves
C.W. Anderson Beyond journalism in the present tense
Almar Latour From walls to canals
Zeynep Tufekci The year we get creeped out by algorithms
Craig Saila Personalization reaches newsrooms
Dan Shanoff This is the new that
Katherine Bell Management is both the problem and the solution
Nicholas Diakopoulos Platforming the news