In the aftermath of the scandals of 2017, women’s voices will take center stage in 2018.
More room will be made to discuss topics such as women’s political aspirations, leadership abilities, feminism and intersectionality, reproductive rights, fight for equal pay and battles against sexual harassment, with less bias and more nuance.
Vanessa K. DeLuca is editor-in-chief of Essence.
Rodney Gibbs Tech workers turn to journalism
Aron Pilhofer We can’t leave the business to the business side any more
Miguel Castro The arrival of the impact producer
Amy Webb Listen to weak signals
Kathleen McElroy Building a news video experience native to mobile
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen The Snapchat scenario and the risk of more closed platforms
Caitlin Thompson Podcasting models mature and diversify
Yvonne Leow The rise of video messaging
Mary Meehan Real lives are at stake in rural areas
Sam Sanders Shine the light on ourselves
Ernst-Jan Pfauth Publishing less to give readers more
Taylor Lorenz Social and media will split
Elizabeth Jensen Show your work
Richard Tofel The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention
Matt Boggie The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea
Tanya Cordrey Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention
Mike Caulfield Refactoring media literacy for the networked age
Nicholas Quah Stop talking trash about young people
Mi-Ai Parrish Blockchain and trust
Vanessa K. DeLuca Women’s voices take center stage
Rick Berke Value is the watchword
Jessica Parker Gilbert Design connects storytelling and strategy
Federica Cherubini The rise of bridge roles in news organizations
Sara M. Watson Feeds will open up to new user-determined filters
Eric Nuzum Beyond the narrative arc
Alfred Hermida Going beyond mobile-first
Cindy Royal Your journalism curriculum is obsolete
Amy King Let’s amplify visual voice
Pia Frey Address users as individuals
Monique Judge Letting black women tell their own stories
Michelle Garcia Navigating journalistic transparency
Zizi Papacharissi Women come back
Helen Havlak Keywords, not publishers, power the world’s biggest feeds
Pablo Boczkowski The rise of skeptical reading
José Zamora Revenue-first journalism
Sydette Harry Listen to your corner and watch for the hook
Carlos Martínez de la Serna The new journalism commons
Raney Aronson-Rath Transparency is the antidote to fake news
Dannagal G. Young Stop covering politics as a game
Gordon Crovitz Serving readers over advertisers
Raju Narisetti Mirror, mirror on the wall
Basile Simon We need better career paths for news nerds
Andrew Ramsammy The year ownership mattered
Julia B. Chan Looking for loyalty in all the right places
Steve Grove The midterms are an opportunity
Dan Shanoff You down with OTT? (Yeah, DTC)
Mandy Velez texting is lit rn, fam
Mario García Storytelling finally adapts to mobile
Tamar Charney We get serious about algorithms
Amie Ferris-Rotman More female reporters abroad (please)
Debra Adams Simmons And a woman shall lead them
Damon Krukowski Reviving the alt-weekly soul
Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer Skepticism and narcissism
Laura E. Davis Writing answers before you know the question
Kristen Muller The year of the voter
Vivian Schiller Pivot to tomorrow
Mary Walter-Brown Show a little vulnerability
Susie Banikarim R.I.P. Pivot to Video (2017–2017)
Trushar Barot The Jio-fication of India
Nicholas Diakopoulos Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity
Tanzina Vega It’s time for media companies to #PassTheMic
Jamie Mottram From pageviews to t-shirts
Will Sommer The year local media gets conservative
Rachel Schallom Better design helps differentiate opinion and news
Edward Roussel Eyes, ears, and brains
Imaeyen Ibanga Longform video leads the way
Brian Lam Sketchy ethics around product reviews
Rachel Davis Mersey AI, with real smarts
Nikki Usher The year of The Washington Post
Jesse Holcomb Information disorder, coming to a congressional district near you
Alexios Mantzarlis Moving fake news research out of the lab
Kyle Ellis Let’s build our way out of this
Hannah Cassius The year of the echo-chamber escapists
C.W. Anderson The social media apocalypse
Sally Lehrman Trust comes first
P. Kim Bui The reckoning is only beginning
Joanne McNeil Gatekeeping the gatekeepers
Dheerja Kaur Fun with subscription products
Jennifer Choi Standing up for us and for each other
Heather Bryant Building the ecosystems for collaboration
Emma Carew Grovum Newsroom culture becomes a priority
Carrie Brown-Smith Transparency finally takes off
Julia Beizer A longer view on the pivot
Tim Carmody Watch out for Spotify
Kawandeep Virdee Zines had it right all along
Juleyka Lantigua Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time
Mariana Moura Santos Think local, act global
Marie Gilot No assholes allowed
Matt DeRienzo A recession, then a collapse
David Skok Finding an information-life balance
Felix Salmon Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin
Kinsey Wilson Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up
Ray Soto VR reaches the next level
Evie Nagy Pivot to mobile video frustration
S. Mitra Kalita The arc of news and audience
Rodney Benson Better, less read, and less trusted
Molly de Aguiar Good journalism won’t be enough
Jacqui Cheng Retailers move into content
Alastair Coote The year of self-improvement
Joanne Lipman Journalists inventing revenue streams
AX Mina Memes and visuals come to the fore
Ruth Palmer Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities
Justin Kosslyn The year journalists become digital security experts
Francesco Marconi The year of machine-to-machine journalism
Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán The editorial meeting of the future
Andrew Losowsky The year of resilience
Tracie Powell The muting of underserved voices
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Seeking trust in fragmented spaces
Borja Echevarría TV goes digital, digital goes TV
Jassim Ahmad Thriving on change
Jim Brady With the people, not just of the people
Marcela Donini and Thiago Herdy Collaboration is the way forward for Brazilian journalism
Adam Thomas Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor
Feli Sánchez The year for guerrilla user research
Lam Thuy Vo Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest
Lanre Akinola Making noise is not a strategy
Mariano Blejman News games rule
Renée Kaplan The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)
Michelle Ferrier The year of the great reckoning
Ståle Grut Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks
Matt Thompson Here come the attention managers
Errin Haines At the ballot, it’s time to count black women
Frédéric Filloux External forces
Cristina Wilson The year of the Instagram Story
Alan Soon The rise of start of psychographic, micro-targeted media
Pete Brown Push alerts, personalized
Rubina Madan Fillion Unlocking the potential of AI
Mira Lowe The year of the local watchdog
Doris Truong Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes
Manoush Zomorodi Self-help as a publishing strategy
Caitria O'Neill The new court of public opinion
Monika Bauerlein The firehose of falsehood
Craig Newmark Working together toward sustainable solutions
Charo Henríquez Training is an investment, not an expense
Michael Kuntz The only pivot that might work
Umbreen Bhatti The trust problem isn’t new
Corey Johnson The pro-fact resistance
Lucas Graves From algorithms to institutions
Bill Keller A growing turn to philanthropy
Jim Moroney Newspapers have to be good enough for readers to pay for
Jennifer Coogan The future is female
Corey Ford The empire strikes back
Cory Haik Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact
Luke O'Neil The end is already here
Christopher Meighan Passive partnership is in the rearview
Sarah Marshall Loyalty as the key performance indicator
Daniel Trielli The rich get richer, the poor scramble
Alice Antheaume Are you fluent in AI?
Niketa Patel Live journalism comes of age
Claire Wardle Disinformation gets worse
Juliette De Maeyer A responsible press criticism
Hossein Derakhshan Television has won
Sam Ford The year of investing in processes
Emily Goligoski Looking beyond news for inspiration
Jared Newman Venture funding and digital news don’t mix
Joyce Barnathan It will be harder to bury the news
Jarrod Dicker Honesty in advertising
Andrew Haeg The year journalists become relationship builders
Eric Ulken The year local publishers get smart(er) about change
Millie Tran and Stine Bauer Dahlberg (Hint: It’s about your brand)
