It’s my belief the outcome of the 2016 election will be the genesis of a new form of journalist and journalism. The ill-equipped manner in which the media interacted with the populace and unduly influenced the election has led to the birth of a rebellion for what will be a new journalistic movement in 2017. The author wishes to caution readers that many of the ideas presented might be construed as advocacy or activism, but in an age of fake news, does it really matter?
The rebel journalist is someone who, armed with a chosen medium or space, will use their sacred privilege to research and disseminate the purest form of democratic truth and justice, free from restriction. Here is the rebel journalists’ manifesto:
Andrew Ramsammy is founder of UnitedPublic Strategies.
Dannagal G. Young The return of the gatekeepers
Cory Haik Navigating power in Trump’s America
Guy Raz Inspiration and hope will matter more than ever
Asma Khalid The year of the newsy podcast
Dan Gillmor Fix the demand side of news too
AX Mina 2017 is for the attention innovators
Sarah Wolozin Virtual reality on the open web
S.P. Sullivan Baking transparency into our routines
Ashley C. Woods Local journalism will fight a new fight
Eric Nuzum Podcasting stratifies into hard layers
Keren Goldshlager Defining a focus, and then saying no
David Weigel A test for online speech
Rachel Schallom Stop flying over the flyover states
Elizabeth Jensen Trust depends on the details
Erin Millar The bottom falls out of Canadian media
Rubina Madan Fillion Snapchat grows up
Rachel Sklar Women are going to get loud
Christopher Meighan Unlocking a deeper mobile experience
Doris Truong Connecting with diverse perspectives
Erin Pettigrew A year of reflection in tech
Olivia Ma The year collaboration beats competition
Melody Kramer Radically rethinking design
Lam Thuy Vo The primary source in the age of mechanical multiplication
Tanya Cordrey The resurgence of reach
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen News after advertising may look like news before advertising
Mathew Ingram The Faustian Facebook dance continues
Sydette Harry Facing journalism’s history
Ken Schwencke Disaggregation and collection
Michael Oreskes Reversing the erosion of democracy
Alexis Lloyd Public trust for private realities
Helen Havlak Chasing mobile search results
David Skok What lies beyond paywalls
Jeremy Barr A terrible year for Tiers B through D
Alberto Cairo Communicating uncertainty to our readers
Andy Rossback The year of the user
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Truthiness in private spaces
Reyhan Harmanci Bear witness — but then what?
Javaun Moradi What can we own?
Burt Herman Local news gets interesting
Emily Goligoski Incorporating audience feedback at scale
Millie Tran International expansion without colonial overtones
Julia Beizer Building a coherent core identity
Megan H. Chan Cultural reporting goes mainstream
Tim Griggs The year we stop taking sides
Ray Soto VR moves from experiments to immersion
Dan Colarusso Let’s make live video we can love
Margarita Noriega From pinning tweets to tweeting pins
Ryan McCarthy Platforms grow up or grow more toxic
Priya Ganapati Mobile websites are ready for reinvention
Annemarie Dooling UGC as a path out of the bubble
Samantha Barry Messaging apps go mainstream
Nicholas Quah Podcasting’s coming class war
Michael Kuntz Trust is the new click
Sam Ford The year we talk about our awful metrics
Mike Ragsdale A smarter information diet
Juan Luis Sánchez Your predictions are our present
Errin Haines Chaos or community?
Maria Bustillos “It’s true — I saw it on Facebook”
Jonathan Hunt Measurement companies get with the times
Kawandeep Virdee Moving deeper than the machine of clicks
Hillary Frey Forests need to burn to regrow
David Chavern Fake news gets solved
Andrea Silenzi Podcasts dive into breaking news analysis
Emi Kolawole From empathy to community
Amy Webb Journalism as a service
Renée Kaplan Pure reach has reached its limit
Caitlin Thompson High touch, high value
Vivian Schiller Tested like never before
Ariane Bernard Better data about your users
Zizi Papacharissi Distracted journalism looks in the mirror
Amie Ferris-Rotman Вслед за Россией
Gabriel Snyder The aberration of 20th-century journalism
Sue Schardt Objectivity, fairness, balance, and love
Peter Sterne A dangerous anti-press mix
Tim Herrera The safe space of service journalism
Carla Zanoni Prioritizing emotional health
Andrew Ramsammy Rise of the rebel journalist
Jonathan Stray A boom in responsible conservative media
Kathleen Kingsbury Print as a premium offering
Joanne Lipman The year of the drone, really
Andrew Haeg The year of listening
Claire Wardle Verification takes center stage
Carrie Brown-Smith We won’t do enough
Richard Tofel The country doesn’t trust us — but they do believe us
Jim Friedlich A banner year for venture philanthropy
Molly de Aguiar Philanthropists galvanize around news
Ernst-Jan Pfauth Earn trust by working for (and with) readers
Almar Latour Thanks, #fakenews
Tracie Powell Building reader relationships
Nushin Rashidian A rise in high-price, high-value subscriptions
Scott Dodd Nonprofits team up for impact
Robert Hernandez History will exclude you, again
Matt Waite The people running the media are the problem
Mandy Velez The audience is the source and the story
Francesco Marconi The year of augmented writing
Anita Zielina The sales funnel reaches (and changes) the newsroom
Tressie McMillan Cottom A path through the media’s coming legitimacy crisis
Umbreen Bhatti A sense of journalists’ humanity
Moreno Cruz Osório The year of transparency in Brazilian journalism
Ståle Grut The battle for high-quality VR
Aja Bogdanoff Comments start pulling their weight
Taylor Lorenz “Selfie journalism” becomes a thing
Katie Zhu The year of minority media
Lee Glendinning A call for great editing
Swati Sharma Failing diversity is failing journalism
Sara M. Watson There is no neutral interface
Geetika Rudra Journalism is community
Andrew Losowsky Building our own communities
Mario García Virtual reality on mobile leaps forward
Jon Slade Trusted news, at a premium
Mary Meehan Feeling blue in a red state
Sarah Marshall Focusing on the why of the click
Steve Henn The next revolution is voice
Juliette De Maeyer and Dominique Trudel A rebirth of populist journalism
Cindy Royal Preparing the digital educator-scholar hybrid
Bill Adair The year of the fact-checking bot
Laura Walker Authentic voices, not fake news
M. Scott Havens Quality advertising to pair with quality content
P. Kim Bui The year journalism teaches again
Bill Keller A healthy skepticism about data
Alice Antheaume A new test for French media
Corey Ford The year of the rebelpreneur
Ole Reißmann Un-faking the news
Mary Walter-Brown Getting comfortable asking for money
Mira Lowe News literacy, bias, and “Hamilton”
Libby Bawcombe Kids board the podcast train
Nathalie Malinarich Making it easy
Liz McMillen The year of deep insights
Amy O'Leary Not just covering communities, reaching them
Rebekah Monson Journalism is community-as-a-service
Adam Thomas The coming collaboration across Europe