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