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