One of the biggest challenges facing news organizations is the notion of trust and transparency. Blockchain has the potential to play a role in creating an element to create transparency for both news and advertising. Having decentralized ledgers and data storage allows visibility into creation and tracking, engagement and follow-through in news and ads. Cost and speed are issues, but they will improve as the exchanges emerge and merge and grow. Trust and transparency have been damaged by elements of technology — I’ll tout this as a possible part of reparation.
Mi-Ai Parrish, current president and publisher of the Arizona Republic, is joining the faculty of Arizona State University.
Rodney Benson Better, less read, and less trusted
Caitlin Thompson Podcasting models mature and diversify
Lam Thuy Vo Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest
Damon Krukowski Reviving the alt-weekly soul
Matt Thompson Here come the attention managers
Carlos Martínez de la Serna The new journalism commons
Lanre Akinola Making noise is not a strategy
Eric Nuzum Beyond the narrative arc
Amie Ferris-Rotman More female reporters abroad (please)
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Seeking trust in fragmented spaces
Joyce Barnathan It will be harder to bury the news
Sydette Harry Listen to your corner and watch for the hook
Joanne McNeil Gatekeeping the gatekeepers
Tanya Cordrey Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention
Amy King Let’s amplify visual voice
Tamar Charney We get serious about algorithms
Juleyka Lantigua Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time
Brian Lam Sketchy ethics around product reviews
Millie Tran and Stine Bauer Dahlberg (Hint: It’s about your brand)
Sara M. Watson Feeds will open up to new user-determined filters
Hannah Cassius The year of the echo-chamber escapists
Juliette De Maeyer A responsible press criticism
Basile Simon We need better career paths for news nerds
Francesco Marconi The year of machine-to-machine journalism
Nushin Rashidian Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives
Kawandeep Virdee Zines had it right all along
Hossein Derakhshan Television has won
Kinsey Wilson Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up
Elizabeth Jensen Show your work
Claire Wardle Disinformation gets worse
Jennifer Coogan The future is female
Monique Judge Letting black women tell their own stories
Richard Tofel The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention
Federica Cherubini The rise of bridge roles in news organizations
Matt Boggie The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea
Jennifer Choi Standing up for us and for each other
Mariana Moura Santos Think local, act global
Doris Truong Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes
Cory Haik Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact
AX Mina Memes and visuals come to the fore
Debra Adams Simmons And a woman shall lead them
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen The Snapchat scenario and the risk of more closed platforms
Nicholas Diakopoulos Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity
Taylor Lorenz Social and media will split
C.W. Anderson The social media apocalypse
Luke O'Neil The end is already here
Sam Ford The year of investing in processes
Trushar Barot The Jio-fication of India
Aron Pilhofer We can’t leave the business to the business side any more
Mike Caulfield Refactoring media literacy for the networked age
P. Kim Bui The reckoning is only beginning
Julia Beizer A longer view on the pivot
Monika Bauerlein The firehose of falsehood
Raney Aronson-Rath Transparency is the antidote to fake news
Kathleen McElroy Building a news video experience native to mobile
Umbreen Bhatti The trust problem isn’t new
Pete Brown Push alerts, personalized
Rachel Schallom Better design helps differentiate opinion and news
Evie Nagy Pivot to mobile video frustration
Errin Haines At the ballot, it’s time to count black women
Tim Carmody Watch out for Spotify
Kim Fox Audience teams diversify their approach
Nicholas Quah Stop talking trash about young people
Andrew Losowsky The year of resilience
Justin Kosslyn The year journalists become digital security experts
Alfred Hermida Going beyond mobile-first
Edward Roussel Eyes, ears, and brains
Craig Newmark Working together toward sustainable solutions
Renée Kaplan The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)
Ray Soto VR reaches the next level
Mariano Blejman News games rule
Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer Skepticism and narcissism
Marie Gilot No assholes allowed
Christopher Meighan Passive partnership is in the rearview
Sam Sanders Shine the light on ourselves
Vivian Schiller Pivot to tomorrow
Jarrod Dicker Honesty in advertising
Rodney Gibbs Tech workers turn to journalism
Rachel Davis Mersey AI, with real smarts
Eric Ulken The year local publishers get smart(er) about change
S. Mitra Kalita The arc of news and audience
Raju Narisetti Mirror, mirror on the wall
Vanessa K. DeLuca Women’s voices take center stage
Felix Salmon Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin
Emma Carew Grovum Newsroom culture becomes a priority
Charo Henríquez Training is an investment, not an expense
Carrie Brown-Smith Transparency finally takes off
Kristen Muller The year of the voter
Mario García Storytelling finally adapts to mobile
Jesse Holcomb Information disorder, coming to a congressional district near you
Alice Antheaume Are you fluent in AI?
Tracie Powell The muting of underserved voices
Alastair Coote The year of self-improvement
Joanne Lipman Journalists inventing revenue streams
Ståle Grut Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks
Kyle Ellis Let’s build our way out of this
Jim Moroney Newspapers have to be good enough for readers to pay for
Mary Walter-Brown Show a little vulnerability
David Skok Finding an information-life balance
Frédéric Filloux External forces
Gordon Crovitz Serving readers over advertisers
Jamie Mottram From pageviews to t-shirts
Will Sommer The year local media gets conservative
Dheerja Kaur Fun with subscription products
Cristina Wilson The year of the Instagram Story
Jared Newman Venture funding and digital news don’t mix
Marcela Donini and Thiago Herdy Collaboration is the way forward for Brazilian journalism
Mira Lowe The year of the local watchdog
Mi-Ai Parrish Blockchain and trust
Borja Echevarría TV goes digital, digital goes TV
Michelle Garcia Navigating journalistic transparency
José Zamora Revenue-first journalism
Dannagal G. Young Stop covering politics as a game
Pia Frey Address users as individuals
Jassim Ahmad Thriving on change
Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán The editorial meeting of the future
Rick Berke Value is the watchword
Cindy Royal Your journalism curriculum is obsolete
Molly de Aguiar Good journalism won’t be enough
Bill Keller A growing turn to philanthropy
Zizi Papacharissi Women come back
Jacqui Cheng Retailers move into content
Rubina Madan Fillion Unlocking the potential of AI
Manoush Zomorodi Self-help as a publishing strategy
Lucas Graves From algorithms to institutions
Tanzina Vega It’s time for media companies to #PassTheMic
Ernst-Jan Pfauth Publishing less to give readers more
Miguel Castro The arrival of the impact producer
Sarah Marshall Loyalty as the key performance indicator
Caitria O'Neill The new court of public opinion
Steve Grove The midterms are an opportunity
Jessica Parker Gilbert Design connects storytelling and strategy
Pablo Boczkowski The rise of skeptical reading
Niketa Patel Live journalism comes of age
Heather Bryant Building the ecosystems for collaboration
Alan Soon The rise of start of psychographic, micro-targeted media
Andrew Haeg The year journalists become relationship builders
Ruth Palmer Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities
Amy Webb Listen to weak signals
Andrew Ramsammy The year ownership mattered
Susie Banikarim R.I.P. Pivot to Video (2017–2017)
Dan Shanoff You down with OTT? (Yeah, DTC)
Sally Lehrman Trust comes first
Mandy Velez texting is lit rn, fam
Corey Ford The empire strikes back
Jim Brady With the people, not just of the people
Laura E. Davis Writing answers before you know the question
Alexios Mantzarlis Moving fake news research out of the lab
Michelle Ferrier The year of the great reckoning
Emily Goligoski Looking beyond news for inspiration
Michael Kuntz The only pivot that might work
Matt DeRienzo A recession, then a collapse
Yvonne Leow The rise of video messaging
Imaeyen Ibanga Longform video leads the way
Adam Thomas Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor
Nikki Usher The year of The Washington Post
Feli Sánchez The year for guerrilla user research
Matt Carlson Attacks on the press will get worse
Corey Johnson The pro-fact resistance
Mary Meehan Real lives are at stake in rural areas
Helen Havlak Keywords, not publishers, power the world’s biggest feeds