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