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