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