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.

Dan Gillmor   Fix the demand side of news too

Robert Hernandez   History will exclude you, again

Guy Raz   Inspiration and hope will matter more than ever

Tanya Cordrey   The resurgence of reach

S.P. Sullivan   Baking transparency into our routines

Cindy Royal   Preparing the digital educator-scholar hybrid

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

Laura Walker   Authentic voices, not fake news

Emily Goligoski   Incorporating audience feedback at scale

Sam Ford   The year we talk about our awful metrics

Michael Oreskes   Reversing the erosion of democracy

Ryan McCarthy   Platforms grow up or grow more toxic

David Chavern   Fake news gets solved

Andrew Haeg   The year of listening

Rubina Madan Fillion   Snapchat grows up

Geetika Rudra   Journalism is community

Mike Ragsdale   A smarter information diet

David Weigel   A test for online speech

Sydette Harry   Facing journalism’s history

Andy Rossback   The year of the user

Laura E. Davis   Show your work

Tim Griggs   The year we stop taking sides

Swati Sharma   Failing diversity is failing journalism

Andrew Losowsky   Building our own communities

Bill Keller   A healthy skepticism about data

Katie Zhu   The year of minority media

Kathleen Kingsbury   Print as a premium offering

Coleen O'Lear   Back to basics

Keren Goldshlager   Defining a focus, and then saying no

Mathew Ingram   The Faustian Facebook dance continues

Vivian Schiller   Tested like never before

Megan H. Chan   Cultural reporting goes mainstream

Almar Latour   Thanks, #fakenews

Umbreen Bhatti   A sense of journalists’ humanity

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

Jonathan Hunt   Measurement companies get with the times

Olivia Ma   The year collaboration beats competition

Trushar Barot   API or die

Julia Beizer   Building a coherent core identity

Liz Danzico   The triumph of the small

Hillary Frey   Forests need to burn to regrow

Annemarie Dooling   UGC as a path out of the bubble

Millie Tran   International expansion without colonial overtones

Cory Haik   Navigating power in Trump’s America

Alice Antheaume   A new test for French media

Juan Luis Sánchez   Your predictions are our present

Reyhan Harmanci   Bear witness — but then what?

Melody Kramer   Radically rethinking design

Joanne Lipman   The year of the drone, really

Gabriel Snyder   The aberration of 20th-century journalism

Peter Sterne   A dangerous anti-press mix

Corey Ford   The year of the rebelpreneur

Steve Henn   The next revolution is voice

Bill Adair   The year of the fact-checking bot

Felix Salmon   Headlines matter

Amie Ferris-Rotman   Вслед за Россией

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

Molly de Aguiar   Philanthropists galvanize around news

David Skok   What lies beyond paywalls

Michael Kuntz   Trust is the new click

P. Kim Bui   The year journalism teaches again

Ashley C. Woods   Local journalism will fight a new fight

Pablo Boczkowski   Fake news and the future of journalism

Ståle Grut   The battle for high-quality VR

Kawandeep Virdee   Moving deeper than the machine of clicks

Erin Millar   The bottom falls out of Canadian media

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

Doris Truong   Connecting with diverse perspectives

Matt Waite   The people running the media are the problem

Margarita Noriega   From pinning tweets to tweeting pins

Scott Dodd   Nonprofits team up for impact

Matt Karolian   AI improves publishing

Errin Haines   Chaos or community?

Ray Soto   VR moves from experiments to immersion

Mark Armstrong   Time to pay up

Mandy Velez   The audience is the source and the story

Nathalie Malinarich   Making it easy

Claire Wardle   Verification takes center stage

Nicholas Quah   Podcasting’s coming class war

Erin Pettigrew   A year of reflection in tech

An Xiao Mina   2017 is for the attention innovators

Carla Zanoni   Prioritizing emotional health

Emi Kolawole   From empathy to community

Zizi Papacharissi   Distracted journalism looks in the mirror

Alberto Cairo   Communicating uncertainty to our readers

Andrew Ramsammy   Rise of the rebel journalist

Christopher Meighan   Unlocking a deeper mobile experience

Ken Schwencke   Disaggregation and collection

Mary Walter-Brown   Getting comfortable asking for money

Sarah Marshall   Focusing on the why of the click

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

Carrie Brown-Smith   We won’t do enough

Sue Schardt   Objectivity, fairness, balance, and love

Sara M. Watson   There is no neutral interface

Sarah Wolozin   Virtual reality on the open web

Rachel Sklar   Women are going to get loud

Amy Webb   Journalism as a service

Jim Friedlich   A banner year for venture philanthropy

Libby Bawcombe   Kids board the podcast train

Asma Khalid   The year of the newsy podcast

Taylor Lorenz   “Selfie journalism” becomes a thing

Mario García   Virtual reality on mobile leaps forward

Caitlin Thompson   High touch, high value

Burt Herman   Local news gets interesting

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Truthiness in private spaces

Mary Meehan   Feeling blue in a red state

Eric Nuzum   Podcasting stratifies into hard layers

Helen Havlak   Chasing mobile search results

Lee Glendinning   A call for great editing

Dannagal G. Young   The return of the gatekeepers

Juliette De Maeyer and Dominique Trudel   A rebirth of populist journalism

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

Tracie Powell   Building reader relationships

Priya Ganapati   Mobile websites are ready for reinvention

Alexis Lloyd   Public trust for private realities

M. Scott Havens   Quality advertising to pair with quality content

Samantha Barry   Messaging apps go mainstream

Adam Thomas   The coming collaboration across Europe

Rachel Schallom   Stop flying over the flyover states

Jon Slade   Trusted news, at a premium

Jonathan Stray   A boom in responsible conservative media

Ariane Bernard   Better data about your users

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

Mira Lowe   News literacy, bias, and “Hamilton”

Moreno Cruz Osório   The year of transparency in Brazilian journalism

Francesco Marconi   The year of augmented writing

Javaun Moradi   What can we own?

Dan Colarusso   Let’s make live video we can love

Ole Reißmann   Un-faking the news

Aja Bogdanoff   Comments start pulling their weight

Rebekah Monson   Journalism is community-as-a-service

Tim Herrera   The safe space of service journalism

Renée Kaplan   Pure reach has reached its limit

Amy O'Leary   Not just covering communities, reaching them

Andrea Silenzi   Podcasts dive into breaking news analysis

Liz McMillen   The year of deep insights

Jeremy Barr   A terrible year for Tiers B through D

Dhiya Kuriakose   The year of digital detoxing

Elizabeth Jensen   Trust depends on the details

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