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.

Pablo Boczkowski   Fake news and the future of journalism

Ken Schwencke   Disaggregation and collection

Rebekah Monson   Journalism is community-as-a-service

Mario García   Virtual reality on mobile leaps forward

Lee Glendinning   A call for great editing

Matt Waite   The people running the media are the problem

S.P. Sullivan   Baking transparency into our routines

Helen Havlak   Chasing mobile search results

Ashley C. Woods   Local journalism will fight a new fight

Andrew Haeg   The year of listening

Moreno Cruz Osório   The year of transparency in Brazilian journalism

Eric Nuzum   Podcasting stratifies into hard layers

Cory Haik   Navigating power in Trump’s America

Liz McMillen   The year of deep insights

Erin Pettigrew   A year of reflection in tech

Mark Armstrong   Time to pay up

Zizi Papacharissi   Distracted journalism looks in the mirror

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

Tanya Cordrey   The resurgence of reach

Umbreen Bhatti   A sense of journalists’ humanity

AX Mina   2017 is for the attention innovators

Michael Oreskes   Reversing the erosion of democracy

Andrew Losowsky   Building our own communities

Rubina Madan Fillion   Snapchat grows up

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Truthiness in private spaces

Nathalie Malinarich   Making it easy

Laura Walker   Authentic voices, not fake news

Sydette Harry   Facing journalism’s history

Kathleen Kingsbury   Print as a premium offering

Ståle Grut   The battle for high-quality VR

Elizabeth Jensen   Trust depends on the details

Alexis Lloyd   Public trust for private realities

Ariane Bernard   Better data about your users

Tim Griggs   The year we stop taking sides

Liz Danzico   The triumph of the small

Claire Wardle   Verification takes center stage

Sarah Marshall   Focusing on the why of the click

Millie Tran   International expansion without colonial overtones

Mira Lowe   News literacy, bias, and “Hamilton”

Coleen O'Lear   Back to basics

Olivia Ma   The year collaboration beats competition

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

Taylor Lorenz   “Selfie journalism” becomes a thing

Matt Karolian   AI improves publishing

Mathew Ingram   The Faustian Facebook dance continues

Francesco Marconi   The year of augmented writing

Jim Friedlich   A banner year for venture philanthropy

Corey Ford   The year of the rebelpreneur

Dan Gillmor   Fix the demand side of news too

Andrea Silenzi   Podcasts dive into breaking news analysis

Jonathan Hunt   Measurement companies get with the times

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

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

Swati Sharma   Failing diversity is failing journalism

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

Molly de Aguiar   Philanthropists galvanize around news

Melody Kramer   Radically rethinking design

David Weigel   A test for online speech

Jonathan Stray   A boom in responsible conservative media

Julia Beizer   Building a coherent core identity

Erin Millar   The bottom falls out of Canadian media

Doris Truong   Connecting with diverse perspectives

Margarita Noriega   From pinning tweets to tweeting pins

M. Scott Havens   Quality advertising to pair with quality content

Burt Herman   Local news gets interesting

Sarah Wolozin   Virtual reality on the open web

Javaun Moradi   What can we own?

Ole Reißmann   Un-faking the news

Ray Soto   VR moves from experiments to immersion

Megan H. Chan   Cultural reporting goes mainstream

Caitlin Thompson   High touch, high value

Amy O'Leary   Not just covering communities, reaching them

Nicholas Quah   Podcasting’s coming class war

Cindy Royal   Preparing the digital educator-scholar hybrid

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

Jon Slade   Trusted news, at a premium

Juan Luis Sánchez   Your predictions are our present

Robert Hernandez   History will exclude you, again

Kawandeep Virdee   Moving deeper than the machine of clicks

Alice Antheaume   A new test for French media

Carrie Brown   We won’t do enough

Sam Ford   The year we talk about our awful metrics

Andrew Ramsammy   Rise of the rebel journalist

Errin Haines   Chaos or community?

Amy Webb   Journalism as a service

Dan Colarusso   Let’s make live video we can love

Samantha Barry   Messaging apps go mainstream

Mike Ragsdale   A smarter information diet

Rachel Sklar   Women are going to get loud

Almar Latour   Thanks, #fakenews

Keren Goldshlager   Defining a focus, and then saying no

Priya Ganapati   Mobile websites are ready for reinvention

Adam Thomas   The coming collaboration across Europe

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

Bill Adair   The year of the fact-checking bot

David Skok   What lies beyond paywalls

Trushar Barot   API or die

Laura E. Davis   Show your work

Libby Bawcombe   Kids board the podcast train

Peter Sterne   A dangerous anti-press mix

Sue Schardt   Objectivity, fairness, balance, and love

Emily Goligoski   Incorporating audience feedback at scale

David Chavern   Fake news gets solved

Emi Kolawole   From empathy to community

Michael Kuntz   Trust is the new click

Gabriel Snyder   The aberration of 20th-century journalism

Annemarie Dooling   UGC as a path out of the bubble

Amie Ferris-Rotman   Вслед за Россией

Christopher Meighan   Unlocking a deeper mobile experience

Aja Bogdanoff   Comments start pulling their weight

Renée Kaplan   Pure reach has reached its limit

Juliette De Maeyer and Dominique Trudel   A rebirth of populist journalism

Andy Rossback   The year of the user

Tim Herrera   The safe space of service journalism

Ryan McCarthy   Platforms grow up or grow more toxic

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

Jeremy Barr   A terrible year for Tiers B through D

Hillary Frey   Forests need to burn to regrow

Dannagal G. Young   The return of the gatekeepers

Mary Meehan   Feeling blue in a red state

Asma Khalid   The year of the newsy podcast

Joanne Lipman   The year of the drone, really

Dhiya Kuriakose   The year of digital detoxing

P. Kim Bui   The year journalism teaches again

Vivian Schiller   Tested like never before

Katie Zhu   The year of minority media

Rachel Schallom   Stop flying over the flyover states

Steve Henn   The next revolution is voice

Felix Salmon   Headlines matter

Carla Zanoni   Prioritizing emotional health

Alberto Cairo   Communicating uncertainty to our readers

Reyhan Harmanci   Bear witness — but then what?

Bill Keller   A healthy skepticism about data

Geetika Rudra   Journalism is community

Sara M. Watson   There is no neutral interface

Scott Dodd   Nonprofits team up for impact

Guy Raz   Inspiration and hope will matter more than ever

Mary Walter-Brown   Getting comfortable asking for money

Tracie Powell   Building reader relationships

Mandy Velez   The audience is the source and the story