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