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Predictions for Journalism 2015

Visualization goes mainstream

“There is an increased interest in data analysis, how to extract information from data to tell stories.”

Alberto Cairo teaches infographics and data visualization at the School of Communication of the University of Miami.

Mira Lowe   Metrics, smaller screens, and race

Alfred Hermida   The fall and rise of the news bundle

Katie Park   The year you get hacked

Dayo Olopade   Learning from mobile-first markets

Jacob Harris   A wave of P.R. data

Zizi Papacharissi   More gonzo, less paywall

Craig Saila   Personalization reaches newsrooms

Katie Zhu   The news mixtape

Raney Aronson-Rath   Finding the right form

Amanda Hale   Native helps pay for the news

Errin Haines   Race is your beat, too

Almar Latour   From walls to canals

Lydia Polgreen   More is less (or too much)

S. Mitra Kalita   Authenticity, expertise, and intimacy

Sue Schardt   The year of yes

Noah Chestnut   The first 45 taps

Matt Thompson   The season of seasons

Kawandeep Virdee   Siphoning from social tech

Melody Kramer   Crowdsourcing the future of news

Alberto Cairo   Visualization goes mainstream

Rachel Sklar   Cut the excuses: Diversity takes work

Maria Bustillos   A return to subscriptions

Richard Tofel   Living on borrowed time

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen   U.S. tech gets more political worldwide

Dan Shanoff   This is the new that

Raju Narisetti   A thaw in the newsroom glacier

Dheerja Kaur   Content creators are users too

Felix Salmon   The beginning of the end of Facebook’s traffic engine

Jason Parham   The rise of the personal-public beef

Trushar Barot   The rise of digital India

Emi Kolawole   The rise of the jacktivist

Latoya Peterson   News in a remix-focused culture

Paul Ford   The capital hook

Sarah Marshall   The allure of a finishable news experience

Pablo Boczkowski   News organizations get serious about research

Nicholas Diakopoulos   Platforming the news

Robert Hernandez   Los Angeles is the content future

Hayley Nelson   Managing assets across platforms

Katherine Bell   Management is both the problem and the solution

Robin Sloan   BuzzFeed will hire a public editor

Aaron Edwards   Diversity: Don’t talk about it, be about it

C.W. Anderson   Beyond journalism in the present tense

John Herrman   The year we finally hear how we sound

Tiff Fehr   Disrupt the buzzword backlash

Aaron Williams   Security and subtlety

Rachel Davis Mersey   Reducing the cognitive burden of news

Cory Corrine   The year of the reader

Reyhan Harmanci   Freelancing sucks

Stacy-Marie Ishmael   Text-plus, not post-text

Alisha Ramos   Reporters, designers, and developers become BFFs

Philip Bump   The year news notifications need to grow up

Matt Waite   Fewer and fewer shut-off valves

Amy Webb   Consumer-aware, context-aware

Jer Thorp   More data, fewer questions

Jeanne Brooks   More listening, more collaborating

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Many more eyes in the sky

Matt Dennewitz   Ads that keep up with editorial

Zeynep Tufekci   The year we get creeped out by algorithms

Heidi Moore   The readers we can’t friend

Ryan Gantz   Bad community is worse than no community

Millie Tran   Smart filters on the rise

David Sleight   What might vs. what should

Lauren Henry Scholz   Accepting anonymity

Juliette De Maeyer   Immersion in (virtual) reality

Jamie Mottram   160 characters is the new 140 characters

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