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