Jamie Mottram is director of content development at the USA TODAY Sports Media Group, which includes the viral sports site For The Win.
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Katie Zhu The news mixtape
Raney Aronson-Rath Finding the right form
Rachel Sklar Cut the excuses: Diversity takes work
Jason Parham The rise of the personal-public beef
Emi Kolawole The rise of the jacktivist
Zeynep Tufekci The year we get creeped out by algorithms
Craig Saila Personalization reaches newsrooms
Raju Narisetti A thaw in the newsroom glacier
Amanda Hale Native helps pay for the news
Melody Kramer Crowdsourcing the future of news
Lydia Polgreen More is less (or too much)
C.W. Anderson Beyond journalism in the present tense
Noah Chestnut The first 45 taps
Kawandeep Virdee Siphoning from social tech
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen U.S. tech gets more political worldwide
Hayley Nelson Managing assets across platforms
Aaron Williams Security and subtlety
Dheerja Kaur Content creators are users too
Philip Bump The year news notifications need to grow up
Katherine Bell Management is both the problem and the solution
Mira Lowe Metrics, smaller screens, and race
Amy Webb Consumer-aware, context-aware
Zizi Papacharissi More gonzo, less paywall
Jeanne Brooks More listening, more collaborating
Ryan Gantz Bad community is worse than no community
Pablo Boczkowski News organizations get serious about research
Jer Thorp More data, fewer questions
Sue Schardt The year of yes
Jamie Mottram 160 characters is the new 140 characters
Robin Sloan BuzzFeed will hire a public editor
Almar Latour From walls to canals
Reyhan Harmanci Freelancing sucks
Richard Tofel Living on borrowed time
Alisha Ramos Reporters, designers, and developers become BFFs
Felix Salmon The beginning of the end of Facebook’s traffic engine
Katie Park The year you get hacked
Tiff Fehr Disrupt the buzzword backlash
David Sleight What might vs. what should
John Herrman The year we finally hear how we sound
Jacob Harris A wave of P.R. data
Alfred Hermida The fall and rise of the news bundle
Sarah Marshall The allure of a finishable news experience
Dan Shanoff This is the new that
Robert Hernandez Los Angeles is the content future
Rachel Davis Mersey Reducing the cognitive burden of news
Matt Thompson The season of seasons
Maria Bustillos A return to subscriptions
Juliette De Maeyer Immersion in (virtual) reality
Errin Haines Race is your beat, too
Latoya Peterson News in a remix-focused culture
Trushar Barot The rise of digital India
Cory Haik The year of the reader
Alberto Cairo Visualization goes mainstream
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Many more eyes in the sky
Nicholas Diakopoulos Platforming the news
Aaron Edwards Diversity: Don’t talk about it, be about it
Lauren Henry Scholz Accepting anonymity
Paul Ford The capital hook
Stacy-Marie Ishmael Text-plus, not post-text
Dayo Olopade Learning from mobile-first markets
Heidi Moore The readers we can’t friend
Millie Tran Smart filters on the rise
Matt Waite Fewer and fewer shut-off valves
Matt Dennewitz Ads that keep up with editorial
