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