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