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