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.

Sam Ford   The year we talk about our awful metrics

Ståle Grut   The battle for high-quality VR

Mike Ragsdale   A smarter information diet

Burt Herman   Local news gets interesting

Keren Goldshlager   Defining a focus, and then saying no

Jeremy Barr   A terrible year for Tiers B through D

Mario García   Virtual reality on mobile leaps forward

Andrew Haeg   The year of listening

Mandy Velez   The audience is the source and the story

Kawandeep Virdee   Moving deeper than the machine of clicks

Umbreen Bhatti   A sense of journalists’ humanity

Priya Ganapati   Mobile websites are ready for reinvention

Ryan McCarthy   Platforms grow up or grow more toxic

Gabriel Snyder   The aberration of 20th-century journalism

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

Katie Zhu   The year of minority media

Ole Reißmann   Un-faking the news

Libby Bawcombe   Kids board the podcast train

Alberto Cairo   Communicating uncertainty to our readers

Francesco Marconi   The year of augmented writing

Jonathan Stray   A boom in responsible conservative media

Coleen O'Lear   Back to basics

Olivia Ma   The year collaboration beats competition

Mira Lowe   News literacy, bias, and “Hamilton”

Rubina Madan Fillion   Snapchat grows up

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

Scott Dodd   Nonprofits team up for impact

Matt Karolian   AI improves publishing

AX Mina   2017 is for the attention innovators

Juliette De Maeyer and Dominique Trudel   A rebirth of populist journalism

Nicholas Quah   Podcasting’s coming class war

S.P. Sullivan   Baking transparency into our routines

Guy Raz   Inspiration and hope will matter more than ever

Dan Gillmor   Fix the demand side of news too

Erin Pettigrew   A year of reflection in tech

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

Sarah Marshall   Focusing on the why of the click

Millie Tran   International expansion without colonial overtones

Renée Kaplan   Pure reach has reached its limit

Melody Kramer   Radically rethinking design

Asma Khalid   The year of the newsy podcast

Rebekah Monson   Journalism is community-as-a-service

Errin Haines   Chaos or community?

Rachel Sklar   Women are going to get loud

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

Emi Kolawole   From empathy to community

Erin Millar   The bottom falls out of Canadian media

Aja Bogdanoff   Comments start pulling their weight

Amie Ferris-Rotman   Вслед за Россией

Pablo Boczkowski   Fake news and the future of journalism

Alice Antheaume   A new test for French media

Doris Truong   Connecting with diverse perspectives

Sara M. Watson   There is no neutral interface

Jon Slade   Trusted news, at a premium

P. Kim Bui   The year journalism teaches again

Geetika Rudra   Journalism is community

David Weigel   A test for online speech

Mary Walter-Brown   Getting comfortable asking for money

Emily Goligoski   Incorporating audience feedback at scale

Carla Zanoni   Prioritizing emotional health

Liz Danzico   The triumph of the small

Annemarie Dooling   UGC as a path out of the bubble

Taylor Lorenz   “Selfie journalism” becomes a thing

Andrew Ramsammy   Rise of the rebel journalist

Tracie Powell   Building reader relationships

Dannagal G. Young   The return of the gatekeepers

Steve Henn   The next revolution is voice

M. Scott Havens   Quality advertising to pair with quality content

Reyhan Harmanci   Bear witness — but then what?

Ariane Bernard   Better data about your users

Carrie Brown-Smith   We won’t do enough

Ken Schwencke   Disaggregation and collection

Jonathan Hunt   Measurement companies get with the times

Julia Beizer   Building a coherent core identity

Margarita Noriega   From pinning tweets to tweeting pins

Moreno Cruz Osório   The year of transparency in Brazilian journalism

Peter Sterne   A dangerous anti-press mix

Helen Havlak   Chasing mobile search results

Adam Thomas   The coming collaboration across Europe

Eric Nuzum   Podcasting stratifies into hard layers

David Skok   What lies beyond paywalls

Andy Rossback   The year of the user

Dan Colarusso   Let’s make live video we can love

Mathew Ingram   The Faustian Facebook dance continues

Andrew Losowsky   Building our own communities

Ashley C. Woods   Local journalism will fight a new fight

Hillary Frey   Forests need to burn to regrow

Michael Oreskes   Reversing the erosion of democracy

Almar Latour   Thanks, #fakenews

Tim Herrera   The safe space of service journalism

Megan H. Chan   Cultural reporting goes mainstream

Felix Salmon   Headlines matter

Javaun Moradi   What can we own?

Molly de Aguiar   Philanthropists galvanize around news

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

Jim Friedlich   A banner year for venture philanthropy

Mark Armstrong   Time to pay up

Claire Wardle   Verification takes center stage

David Chavern   Fake news gets solved

Sarah Wolozin   Virtual reality on the open web

Lee Glendinning   A call for great editing

Kathleen Kingsbury   Print as a premium offering

Bill Adair   The year of the fact-checking bot

Sue Schardt   Objectivity, fairness, balance, and love

Joanne Lipman   The year of the drone, really

Andrea Silenzi   Podcasts dive into breaking news analysis

Mary Meehan   Feeling blue in a red state

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Truthiness in private spaces

Tim Griggs   The year we stop taking sides

Bill Keller   A healthy skepticism about data

Amy O'Leary   Not just covering communities, reaching them

Robert Hernandez   History will exclude you, again

Christopher Meighan   Unlocking a deeper mobile experience

Juan Luis Sánchez   Your predictions are our present

Swati Sharma   Failing diversity is failing journalism

Cindy Royal   Preparing the digital educator-scholar hybrid

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

Zizi Papacharissi   Distracted journalism looks in the mirror

Laura E. Davis   Show your work

Corey Ford   The year of the rebelpreneur

Liz McMillen   The year of deep insights

Michael Kuntz   Trust is the new click

Laura Walker   Authentic voices, not fake news

Sydette Harry   Facing journalism’s history

Rachel Schallom   Stop flying over the flyover states

Caitlin Thompson   High touch, high value

Amy Webb   Journalism as a service

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

Nathalie Malinarich   Making it easy

Tanya Cordrey   The resurgence of reach

Samantha Barry   Messaging apps go mainstream

Cory Haik   Navigating power in Trump’s America

Alexis Lloyd   Public trust for private realities

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

Dhiya Kuriakose   The year of digital detoxing

Matt Waite   The people running the media are the problem

Elizabeth Jensen   Trust depends on the details

Trushar Barot   API or die

Ray Soto   VR moves from experiments to immersion

Vivian Schiller   Tested like never before