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