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.

Erin Millar   The bottom falls out of Canadian media

Mario García   Virtual reality on mobile leaps forward

Guy Raz   Inspiration and hope will matter more than ever

Olivia Ma   The year collaboration beats competition

Matt Waite   The people running the media are the problem

Dannagal G. Young   The return of the gatekeepers

Carrie Brown-Smith   We won’t do enough

Rachel Schallom   Stop flying over the flyover states

Margarita Noriega   From pinning tweets to tweeting pins

Ryan McCarthy   Platforms grow up or grow more toxic

Renée Kaplan   Pure reach has reached its limit

Ken Schwencke   Disaggregation and collection

Annemarie Dooling   UGC as a path out of the bubble

Asma Khalid   The year of the newsy podcast

Mark Armstrong   Time to pay up

Almar Latour   Thanks, #fakenews

Ariane Bernard   Better data about your users

Aja Bogdanoff   Comments start pulling their weight

Jeremy Barr   A terrible year for Tiers B through D

Mira Lowe   News literacy, bias, and “Hamilton”

Ray Soto   VR moves from experiments to immersion

Tanya Cordrey   The resurgence of reach

Emi Kolawole   From empathy to community

Megan H. Chan   Cultural reporting goes mainstream

Liz Danzico   The triumph of the small

Errin Haines   Chaos or community?

Libby Bawcombe   Kids board the podcast train

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

Ståle Grut   The battle for high-quality VR

Samantha Barry   Messaging apps go mainstream

Francesco Marconi   The year of augmented writing

Sydette Harry   Facing journalism’s history

Lee Glendinning   A call for great editing

Umbreen Bhatti   A sense of journalists’ humanity

Reyhan Harmanci   Bear witness — but then what?

Doris Truong   Connecting with diverse perspectives

Peter Sterne   A dangerous anti-press mix

Eric Nuzum   Podcasting stratifies into hard layers

Mary Walter-Brown   Getting comfortable asking for money

Laura E. Davis   Show your work

M. Scott Havens   Quality advertising to pair with quality content

Sarah Marshall   Focusing on the why of the click

Alexis Lloyd   Public trust for private realities

David Chavern   Fake news gets solved

Emily Goligoski   Incorporating audience feedback at scale

Swati Sharma   Failing diversity is failing journalism

Juan Luis Sánchez   Your predictions are our present

Javaun Moradi   What can we own?

Steve Henn   The next revolution is voice

Dan Gillmor   Fix the demand side of news too

Andrew Ramsammy   Rise of the rebel journalist

Sarah Wolozin   Virtual reality on the open web

Mathew Ingram   The Faustian Facebook dance continues

Felix Salmon   Headlines matter

Liz McMillen   The year of deep insights

Zizi Papacharissi   Distracted journalism looks in the mirror

Rubina Madan Fillion   Snapchat grows up

Jon Slade   Trusted news, at a premium

Amie Ferris-Rotman   Вслед за Россией

Jim Friedlich   A banner year for venture philanthropy

Christopher Meighan   Unlocking a deeper mobile experience

Michael Oreskes   Reversing the erosion of democracy

Rebekah Monson   Journalism is community-as-a-service

Coleen O'Lear   Back to basics

Joanne Lipman   The year of the drone, really

Andrew Haeg   The year of listening

Sara M. Watson   There is no neutral interface

Keren Goldshlager   Defining a focus, and then saying no

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

Geetika Rudra   Journalism is community

Carla Zanoni   Prioritizing emotional health

Taylor Lorenz   “Selfie journalism” becomes a thing

Moreno Cruz Osório   The year of transparency in Brazilian journalism

Ashley C. Woods   Local journalism will fight a new fight

Michael Kuntz   Trust is the new click

S.P. Sullivan   Baking transparency into our routines

Melody Kramer   Radically rethinking design

Laura Walker   Authentic voices, not fake news

Sue Schardt   Objectivity, fairness, balance, and love

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

Jonathan Stray   A boom in responsible conservative media

Priya Ganapati   Mobile websites are ready for reinvention

David Weigel   A test for online speech

Helen Havlak   Chasing mobile search results

Cindy Royal   Preparing the digital educator-scholar hybrid

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Truthiness in private spaces

David Skok   What lies beyond paywalls

Matt Karolian   AI improves publishing

Rachel Sklar   Women are going to get loud

Mary Meehan   Feeling blue in a red state

Katie Zhu   The year of minority media

An Xiao Mina   2017 is for the attention innovators

Kathleen Kingsbury   Print as a premium offering

Julia Beizer   Building a coherent core identity

Adam Thomas   The coming collaboration across Europe

Amy Webb   Journalism as a service

Vivian Schiller   Tested like never before

Dhiya Kuriakose   The year of digital detoxing

P. Kim Bui   The year journalism teaches again

Cory Haik   Navigating power in Trump’s America

Millie Tran   International expansion without colonial overtones

Tracie Powell   Building reader relationships

Mandy Velez   The audience is the source and the story

Hillary Frey   Forests need to burn to regrow

Andy Rossback   The year of the user

Alberto Cairo   Communicating uncertainty to our readers

Caitlin Thompson   High touch, high value

Erin Pettigrew   A year of reflection in tech

Jonathan Hunt   Measurement companies get with the times

Nicholas Quah   Podcasting’s coming class war

Elizabeth Jensen   Trust depends on the details

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

Molly de Aguiar   Philanthropists galvanize around news

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

Robert Hernandez   History will exclude you, again

Claire Wardle   Verification takes center stage

Andrea Silenzi   Podcasts dive into breaking news analysis

Trushar Barot   API or die

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

Nathalie Malinarich   Making it easy

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

Kawandeep Virdee   Moving deeper than the machine of clicks

Andrew Losowsky   Building our own communities

Amy O'Leary   Not just covering communities, reaching them

Mike Ragsdale   A smarter information diet

Bill Adair   The year of the fact-checking bot

Pablo Boczkowski   Fake news and the future of journalism

Tim Griggs   The year we stop taking sides

Bill Keller   A healthy skepticism about data

Gabriel Snyder   The aberration of 20th-century journalism

Corey Ford   The year of the rebelpreneur

Ole Reißmann   Un-faking the news

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

Dan Colarusso   Let’s make live video we can love

Burt Herman   Local news gets interesting

Sam Ford   The year we talk about our awful metrics

Scott Dodd   Nonprofits team up for impact

Juliette De Maeyer and Dominique Trudel   A rebirth of populist journalism

Alice Antheaume   A new test for French media

Tim Herrera   The safe space of service journalism