A smarter information diet

“We’ve gotten to where we don’t deliver the news people need — we deliver the news people want. And I think that’s dangerous.”

Mike Ragsdale is CEO and founder of 30A, a Florida local news site that generates over $1 million in revenue per year.

Amy O'Leary   Not just covering communities, reaching them

Tim Griggs   The year we stop taking sides

Liz McMillen   The year of deep insights

Hillary Frey   Forests need to burn to regrow

Ashley C. Woods   Local journalism will fight a new fight

Laura E. Davis   Show your work

Kathleen Kingsbury   Print as a premium offering

Ken Schwencke   Disaggregation and collection

Reyhan Harmanci   Bear witness — but then what?

Claire Wardle   Verification takes center stage

Dan Gillmor   Fix the demand side of news too

Sarah Wolozin   Virtual reality on the open web

Tanya Cordrey   The resurgence of reach

Rebekah Monson   Journalism is community-as-a-service

Aja Bogdanoff   Comments start pulling their weight

Amy Webb   Journalism as a service

Alexis Lloyd   Public trust for private realities

M. Scott Havens   Quality advertising to pair with quality content

Amie Ferris-Rotman   Вслед за Россией

Tracie Powell   Building reader relationships

Pablo Boczkowski   Fake news and the future of journalism

Almar Latour   Thanks, #fakenews

Maria Bustillos   “It’s true — I saw it on Facebook”

David Skok   What lies beyond paywalls

Renée Kaplan   Pure reach has reached its limit

Juliette De Maeyer and Dominique Trudel   A rebirth of populist journalism

Mathew Ingram   The Faustian Facebook dance continues

Jonathan Hunt   Measurement companies get with the times

Ariane Bernard   Better data about your users

Andrew Losowsky   Building our own communities

Sue Schardt   Objectivity, fairness, balance, and love

Peter Sterne   A dangerous anti-press mix

Cindy Royal   Preparing the digital educator-scholar hybrid

Doris Truong   Connecting with diverse perspectives

Andrew Ramsammy   Rise of the rebel journalist

Rachel Schallom   Stop flying over the flyover states

Jeremy Barr   A terrible year for Tiers B through D

Carrie Brown-Smith   We won’t do enough

Anita Zielina   The sales funnel reaches (and changes) the newsroom

Michael Oreskes   Reversing the erosion of democracy

Cory Haik   Navigating power in Trump’s America

Javaun Moradi   What can we own?

S.P. Sullivan   Baking transparency into our routines

Jim Friedlich   A banner year for venture philanthropy

Eric Nuzum   Podcasting stratifies into hard layers

Erin Pettigrew   A year of reflection in tech

Alberto Cairo   Communicating uncertainty to our readers

Bill Adair   The year of the fact-checking bot

Dan Colarusso   Let’s make live video we can love

Carla Zanoni   Prioritizing emotional health

Andy Rossback   The year of the user

Gabriel Snyder   The aberration of 20th-century journalism

Mary Walter-Brown   Getting comfortable asking for money

Burt Herman   Local news gets interesting

Ernst-Jan Pfauth   Earn trust by working for (and with) readers

Alice Antheaume   A new test for French media

Emily Goligoski   Incorporating audience feedback at scale

Juan Luis Sánchez   Your predictions are our present

Mira Lowe   News literacy, bias, and “Hamilton”

Priya Ganapati   Mobile websites are ready for reinvention

Asma Khalid   The year of the newsy podcast

Mandy Velez   The audience is the source and the story

Swati Sharma   Failing diversity is failing journalism

Ryan McCarthy   Platforms grow up or grow more toxic

Matt Waite   The people running the media are the problem

Ståle Grut   The battle for high-quality VR

Emi Kolawole   From empathy to community

Andrea Silenzi   Podcasts dive into breaking news analysis

Megan H. Chan   Cultural reporting goes mainstream

Vivian Schiller   Tested like never before

Lam Thuy Vo   The primary source in the age of mechanical multiplication

Katie Zhu   The year of minority media

Jon Slade   Trusted news, at a premium

Sam Ford   The year we talk about our awful metrics

Caitlin Thompson   High touch, high value

AX Mina   2017 is for the attention innovators

Mike Ragsdale   A smarter information diet

Rubina Madan Fillion   Snapchat grows up

Nicholas Quah   Podcasting’s coming class war

Laura Walker   Authentic voices, not fake news

Francesco Marconi   The year of augmented writing

Scott Dodd   Nonprofits team up for impact

Adam Thomas   The coming collaboration across Europe

Erin Millar   The bottom falls out of Canadian media

Rachel Sklar   Women are going to get loud

Umbreen Bhatti   A sense of journalists’ humanity

Julia Beizer   Building a coherent core identity

Moreno Cruz Osório   The year of transparency in Brazilian journalism

Elizabeth Jensen   Trust depends on the details

Ray Soto   VR moves from experiments to immersion

Bill Keller   A healthy skepticism about data

P. Kim Bui   The year journalism teaches again

David Weigel   A test for online speech

Jonathan Stray   A boom in responsible conservative media

Errin Haines   Chaos or community?

Ole Reißmann   Un-faking the news

Lee Glendinning   A call for great editing

Taylor Lorenz   “Selfie journalism” becomes a thing

Liz Danzico   The triumph of the small

Annemarie Dooling   UGC as a path out of the bubble

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen   News after advertising may look like news before advertising

Sydette Harry   Facing journalism’s history

Olivia Ma   The year collaboration beats competition

Margarita Noriega   From pinning tweets to tweeting pins

Richard Tofel   The country doesn’t trust us — but they do believe us

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Truthiness in private spaces

Trushar Barot   API or die

Steve Henn   The next revolution is voice

Felix Salmon   Headlines matter

Geetika Rudra   Journalism is community

Mario García   Virtual reality on mobile leaps forward

Dannagal G. Young   The return of the gatekeepers

Zizi Papacharissi   Distracted journalism looks in the mirror

Andrew Haeg   The year of listening

Helen Havlak   Chasing mobile search results

Robert Hernandez   History will exclude you, again

Molly de Aguiar   Philanthropists galvanize around news

Christopher Meighan   Unlocking a deeper mobile experience

Sarah Marshall   Focusing on the why of the click

Libby Bawcombe   Kids board the podcast train

Nathalie Malinarich   Making it easy

Sara M. Watson   There is no neutral interface

Melody Kramer   Radically rethinking design

Mary Meehan   Feeling blue in a red state

Nushin Rashidian   A rise in high-price, high-value subscriptions

Keren Goldshlager   Defining a focus, and then saying no

Michael Kuntz   Trust is the new click

Matt Karolian   AI improves publishing

Mark Armstrong   Time to pay up

Dhiya Kuriakose   The year of digital detoxing

Coleen O'Lear   Back to basics

Millie Tran   International expansion without colonial overtones

Joanne Lipman   The year of the drone, really

Tressie McMillan Cottom   A path through the media’s coming legitimacy crisis

David Chavern   Fake news gets solved

Kawandeep Virdee   Moving deeper than the machine of clicks

Samantha Barry   Messaging apps go mainstream

Guy Raz   Inspiration and hope will matter more than ever

Tim Herrera   The safe space of service journalism

Corey Ford   The year of the rebelpreneur