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.

Alexios Mantzarlis   Moving fake news research out of the lab

John Keefe   Scooped by AI

Mira Lowe   The year of the local watchdog

Michael Kuntz   The only pivot that might work

Marie Gilot   No assholes allowed

Charo Henríquez   Training is an investment, not an expense

Juleyka Lantigua   Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time

Neha Gandhi   Filler killers

Feli Sánchez   The year for guerrilla user research

Sam Sanders   Shine the light on ourselves

Umbreen Bhatti   The trust problem isn’t new

Sam Ford   The year of investing in processes

José Zamora   Revenue-first journalism

Lucas Graves   From algorithms to institutions

Manoush Zomorodi   Self-help as a publishing strategy

Mariano Blejman   News games rule

Kathleen McElroy   Building a news video experience native to mobile

Almar Latour   Conquering calm

Pete Brown   Push alerts, personalized

Sarah Marshall   Loyalty as the key performance indicator

Julia Beizer   A longer view on the pivot

Nancy Watzman   Know thy TV

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

Mario García   Storytelling finally adapts to mobile

AX Mina   Memes and visuals come to the fore

Mandy Velez   texting is lit rn, fam

Felix Salmon   Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin

Claire Wardle   Disinformation gets worse

Raney Aronson-Rath   Transparency is the antidote to fake news

Renée Kaplan   The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)

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

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

Laura E. Davis   Writing answers before you know the question

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

Ruth Palmer   Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities

Nikki Usher   The year of The Washington Post

Craig Newmark   Working together toward sustainable solutions

Evie Nagy   Pivot to mobile video frustration

Emily Goligoski   Looking beyond news for inspiration

Rubina Madan Fillion   Unlocking the potential of AI

Gordon Crovitz   Serving readers over advertisers

Monique Judge   Letting black women tell their own stories

Sally Lehrman   Trust comes first

Hannah Cassius   The year of the echo-chamber escapists

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

Vanessa K. DeLuca   Women’s voices take center stage

Kelsey Proud   No, no, no

Lam Thuy Vo   Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest

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

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

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

Jake Levine   The return to now

Caitlin Thompson   Podcasting models mature and diversify

Kristen Muller   The year of the voter

Trushar Barot   The Jio-fication of India

Matt Thompson   Here come the attention managers

Juliette De Maeyer   A responsible press criticism

Jared Newman   Venture funding and digital news don’t mix

Jessica Parker Gilbert   Design connects storytelling and strategy

Amie Ferris-Rotman   More female reporters abroad (please)

Ray Soto   VR reaches the next level

Sydette Harry   Listen to your corner and watch for the hook

Kawandeep Virdee   Zines had it right all along

Tamar Charney   We get serious about algorithms

Tracie Powell   The muting of underserved voices

Corey Ford   The empire strikes back

Doris Truong   Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes

Ernst-Jan Pfauth   Publishing less to give readers more

Kim Fox   Audience teams diversify their approach

Zizi Papacharissi   Women come back

Usha Sahay   Wallets get opened

Andrew Haeg   The year journalists become relationship builders

Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán   The editorial meeting of the future

Matt Carlson   Attacks on the press will get worse

Sue Schardt   Jump the niche

Cory Haik   Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact

Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer   Skepticism and narcissism

Dannagal G. Young   Stop covering politics as a game

Brian Lam   Sketchy ethics around product reviews

Kinsey Wilson   Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up

P. Kim Bui   The reckoning is only beginning

Debra Adams Simmons   And a woman shall lead them

Amy Webb   Listen to weak signals

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

Mary Walter-Brown   Show a little vulnerability

Andrew Ramsammy   The year ownership mattered

Carrie Brown-Smith   Transparency finally takes off

Alastair Coote   The year of self-improvement

Ståle Grut   Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks

Elizabeth Jensen   Show your work

Nicholas Diakopoulos   Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity

Jennifer Choi   Standing up for us and for each other

Ariana Tobin   Too tired to tap

Joyce Barnathan   It will be harder to bury the news

Richard Tofel   The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention

Jassim Ahmad   Thriving on change

Nicholas Quah   Stop talking trash about young people

Joanne Lipman   Journalists inventing revenue streams

Rick Berke   Value is the watchword

Niketa Patel   Live journalism comes of age

Tanya Cordrey   Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention

Jim Brady   With the people, not just of the people

Michelle Garcia   Navigating journalistic transparency

Rodney Benson   Better, less read, and less trusted

Christopher Meighan   Passive partnership is in the rearview

Nushin Rashidian   Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives

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

Andrew Losowsky   The year of resilience

Edward Roussel   Eyes, ears, and brains

Pia Frey   Address users as individuals

Francesco Marconi   The year of machine-to-machine journalism

Tim Carmody   Watch out for Spotify

Caitria O'Neill   The new court of public opinion

Hossein Derakhshan   Television has won

Mike Caulfield   Refactoring media literacy for the networked age

Imaeyen Ibanga   Longform video leads the way

Paul Ford   Go global

Molly de Aguiar   Good journalism won’t be enough

Matt Boggie   The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea

Dan Newman   A return to trust

Monika Bauerlein   The firehose of falsehood

Luke O'Neil   The end is already here

Rodney Gibbs   Tech workers turn to journalism

Kyle Ellis   Let’s build our way out of this

Cindy Royal   Your journalism curriculum is obsolete

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

Cristina Wilson   The year of the Instagram Story

Bill Keller   A growing turn to philanthropy

Yvonne Leow   The rise of video messaging

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

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

Justin Kosslyn   The year journalists become digital security experts

Lanre Akinola   Making noise is not a strategy

Rachel Schallom   Better design helps differentiate opinion and news

Basile Simon   We need better career paths for news nerds

Emma Carew Grovum   Newsroom culture becomes a priority

Alfred Hermida   Going beyond mobile-first

Miguel Castro   The arrival of the impact producer

Jacqui Cheng   Retailers move into content

Steve Grove   The midterms are an opportunity

Mary Meehan   Real lives are at stake in rural areas

Taylor Lorenz   Social and media will split

Corey Johnson   The pro-fact resistance

Heather Bryant   Building the ecosystems for collaboration

Eric Nuzum   Beyond the narrative arc

Jennifer Coogan   The future is female

Rachel Davis Mersey   AI, with real smarts

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

David Skok   Finding an information-life balance

Vivian Schiller   Pivot to tomorrow

Adam Thomas   Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor

Damon Krukowski   Reviving the alt-weekly soul

Mi-Ai Parrish   Blockchain and trust

Michelle Ferrier   The year of the great reckoning

Borja Echevarría   TV goes digital, digital goes TV

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Seeking trust in fragmented spaces

C.W. Anderson   The social media apocalypse

Alice Antheaume   Are you fluent in AI?

Frédéric Filloux   External forces

Joanne McNeil   Gatekeeping the gatekeepers

Dheerja Kaur   Fun with subscription products

Will Sommer   The year local media gets conservative

Amy King   Let’s amplify visual voice

Burt Herman   Things get real

S. Mitra Kalita   The arc of news and audience

Jarrod Dicker   Honesty in advertising

Raju Narisetti   Mirror, mirror on the wall

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

Matt DeRienzo   A recession, then a collapse

Nathalie Malinarich   Peak push

Federica Cherubini   The rise of bridge roles in news organizations

Jamie Mottram   From pageviews to t-shirts

Daniel Trielli   The rich get richer, the poor scramble

Carlos Martínez de la Serna   The new journalism commons

Mariana Moura Santos   Think local, act global

Pablo Boczkowski   The rise of skeptical reading