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