Zines had it right all along

“Zines have an enormous variety. They’re experimental and diverse. This gives them a freshness and surprise. They’re anti-formalist. They’re relatable.”

Kawandeep Virdee works on product at Medium.

Nicholas Diakopoulos   Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity

José Zamora   Revenue-first journalism

Matt Thompson   Here come the attention managers

C.W. Anderson   The social media apocalypse

Mi-Ai Parrish   Blockchain and trust

Tracie Powell   The muting of underserved voices

Feli Sánchez   The year for guerrilla user research

Elizabeth Jensen   Show your work

Alastair Coote   The year of self-improvement

Joanne McNeil   Gatekeeping the gatekeepers

Joanne Lipman   Journalists inventing revenue streams

Mike Caulfield   Refactoring media literacy for the networked age

Debra Adams Simmons   And a woman shall lead them

Michael Kuntz   The only pivot that might work

Rubina Madan Fillion   Unlocking the potential of AI

Sam Sanders   Shine the light on ourselves

Justin Kosslyn   The year journalists become digital security experts

Kyle Ellis   Let’s build our way out of this

Jim Moroney   Newspapers have to be good enough for readers to pay for

Julia B. Chan   Looking for loyalty in all the right places

Alice Antheaume   Are you fluent in AI?

Monika Bauerlein   The firehose of falsehood

Daniel Trielli   The rich get richer, the poor scramble

Lanre Akinola   Making noise is not a strategy

Taylor Lorenz   Social and media will split

Kristen Muller   The year of the voter

Ernst-Jan Pfauth   Publishing less to give readers more

Emily Goligoski   Looking beyond news for inspiration

Imaeyen Ibanga   Longform video leads the way

Eric Ulken   The year local publishers get smart(er) about change

Francesco Marconi   The year of machine-to-machine journalism

Pete Brown   Push alerts, personalized

Rodney Benson   Better, less read, and less trusted

Cristina Wilson   The year of the Instagram Story

Tim Carmody   Watch out for Spotify

Nathalie Malinarich   Peak push

Juliette De Maeyer   A responsible press criticism

Miguel Castro   The arrival of the impact producer

Jessica Parker Gilbert   Design connects storytelling and strategy

Susie Banikarim   R.I.P. Pivot to Video (2017–2017)

Ståle Grut   Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks

Rachel Davis Mersey   AI, with real smarts

Caitria O'Neill   The new court of public opinion

Trushar Barot   The Jio-fication of India

Sally Lehrman   Trust comes first

Errin Haines   At the ballot, it’s time to count black women

Rodney Gibbs   Tech workers turn to journalism

Almar Latour   Conquering calm

Alexios Mantzarlis   Moving fake news research out of the lab

Cindy Royal   Your journalism curriculum is obsolete

Ray Soto   VR reaches the next level

Sara M. Watson   Feeds will open up to new user-determined filters

Nicholas Quah   Stop talking trash about young people

Charo Henríquez   Training is an investment, not an expense

Aron Pilhofer   We can’t leave the business to the business side any more

S. Mitra Kalita   The arc of news and audience

Christopher Meighan   Passive partnership is in the rearview

Jake Levine   The return to now

Kelsey Proud   No, no, no

Neha Gandhi   Filler killers

Luke O'Neil   The end is already here

Andrew Haeg   The year journalists become relationship builders

Felix Salmon   Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin

Amy Webb   Listen to weak signals

Dan Shanoff   You down with OTT? (Yeah, DTC)

Molly de Aguiar   Good journalism won’t be enough

Matt Carlson   Attacks on the press will get worse

Jarrod Dicker   Honesty in advertising

Mariana Moura Santos   Think local, act global

Hannah Cassius   The year of the echo-chamber escapists

Eric Nuzum   Beyond the narrative arc

Kawandeep Virdee   Zines had it right all along

Millie Tran and Stine Bauer Dahlberg   (Hint: It’s about your brand)

Matt Boggie   The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea

Mary Walter-Brown   Show a little vulnerability

Joyce Barnathan   It will be harder to bury the news

Jassim Ahmad   Thriving on change

Richard Tofel   The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention

Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer   Skepticism and narcissism

Manoush Zomorodi   Self-help as a publishing strategy

Jesse Holcomb   Information disorder, coming to a congressional district near you

John Keefe   Scooped by AI

Michelle Garcia   Navigating journalistic transparency

Sydette Harry   Listen to your corner and watch for the hook

Jamie Mottram   From pageviews to t-shirts

Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán   The editorial meeting of the future

Corey Johnson   The pro-fact resistance

Renée Kaplan   The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)

Michelle Ferrier   The year of the great reckoning

Raju Narisetti   Mirror, mirror on the wall

Dheerja Kaur   Fun with subscription products

Federica Cherubini   The rise of bridge roles in news organizations

Damon Krukowski   Reviving the alt-weekly soul

Raney Aronson-Rath   Transparency is the antidote to fake news

Jennifer Coogan   The future is female

Jacqui Cheng   Retailers move into content

Andrew Ramsammy   The year ownership mattered

Jennifer Choi   Standing up for us and for each other

Tamar Charney   We get serious about algorithms

Caitlin Thompson   Podcasting models mature and diversify

Rick Berke   Value is the watchword

Mario García   Storytelling finally adapts to mobile

Jared Newman   Venture funding and digital news don’t mix

Heather Bryant   Building the ecosystems for collaboration

Steve Grove   The midterms are an opportunity

Ariana Tobin   Too tired to tap

Lucas Graves   From algorithms to institutions

Basile Simon   We need better career paths for news nerds

Bill Keller   A growing turn to philanthropy

Helen Havlak   Keywords, not publishers, power the world’s biggest feeds

Edward Roussel   Eyes, ears, and brains

Lam Thuy Vo   Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest

Pablo Boczkowski   The rise of skeptical reading

Carrie Brown-Smith   Transparency finally takes off

Ruth Palmer   Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities

Jim Brady   With the people, not just of the people

Tanzina Vega   It’s time for media companies to #PassTheMic

Kinsey Wilson   Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up

Sarah Marshall   Loyalty as the key performance indicator

Mariano Blejman   News games rule

Sam Ford   The year of investing in processes

Burt Herman   Things get real

Nikki Usher   The year of The Washington Post

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Seeking trust in fragmented spaces

Usha Sahay   Wallets get opened

Paul Ford   Go global

Zizi Papacharissi   Women come back

Alfred Hermida   Going beyond mobile-first

Pia Frey   Address users as individuals

Gordon Crovitz   Serving readers over advertisers

Alan Soon   The rise of start of psychographic, micro-targeted media

Doris Truong   Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes

David Skok   Finding an information-life balance

Umbreen Bhatti   The trust problem isn’t new

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen   The Snapchat scenario and the risk of more closed platforms

Marcela Donini and Thiago Herdy   Collaboration is the way forward for Brazilian journalism

AX Mina   Memes and visuals come to the fore

Rachel Schallom   Better design helps differentiate opinion and news

Vanessa K. DeLuca   Women’s voices take center stage

Will Sommer   The year local media gets conservative

Corey Ford   The empire strikes back

Juleyka Lantigua   Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time

Matt DeRienzo   A recession, then a collapse

Mary Meehan   Real lives are at stake in rural areas

Mira Lowe   The year of the local watchdog

Kathleen McElroy   Building a news video experience native to mobile

Frédéric Filloux   External forces

Brian Lam   Sketchy ethics around product reviews

Hossein Derakhshan   Television has won

Claire Wardle   Disinformation gets worse

Tanya Cordrey   Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention

Julia Beizer   A longer view on the pivot

Craig Newmark   Working together toward sustainable solutions

Marie Gilot   No assholes allowed

Amie Ferris-Rotman   More female reporters abroad (please)

P. Kim Bui   The reckoning is only beginning

Monique Judge   Letting black women tell their own stories

Laura E. Davis   Writing answers before you know the question

Evie Nagy   Pivot to mobile video frustration

Mandy Velez   texting is lit rn, fam

Amy King   Let’s amplify visual voice

Carlos Martínez de la Serna   The new journalism commons

Andrew Losowsky   The year of resilience

Emma Carew Grovum   Newsroom culture becomes a priority

Vivian Schiller   Pivot to tomorrow

Dannagal G. Young   Stop covering politics as a game

Niketa Patel   Live journalism comes of age

Cory Haik   Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact

Kim Fox   Audience teams diversify their approach

Borja Echevarría   TV goes digital, digital goes TV

Sue Schardt   Jump the niche

Nushin Rashidian   Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives

Yvonne Leow   The rise of video messaging

Nancy Watzman   Know thy TV

Dan Newman   A return to trust

Adam Thomas   Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor