There will be a libel suit against pro-Trump online trolls who spread lies about a person or business, and it’ll test the laws governing online speech.
David Weigel is a national political correspondent for The Washington Post.
Rebekah Monson Journalism is community-as-a-service
Kawandeep Virdee Moving deeper than the machine of clicks
Carrie Brown-Smith We won’t do enough
Juliette De Maeyer and Dominique Trudel A rebirth of populist journalism
Moreno Cruz Osório The year of transparency in Brazilian journalism
Peter Sterne A dangerous anti-press mix
Umbreen Bhatti A sense of journalists’ humanity
Tim Griggs The year we stop taking sides
Margarita Noriega From pinning tweets to tweeting pins
Steve Henn The next revolution is voice
Helen Havlak Chasing mobile search results
Mary Walter-Brown Getting comfortable asking for money
Annemarie Dooling UGC as a path out of the bubble
Rachel Schallom Stop flying over the flyover states
Ashley C. Woods Local journalism will fight a new fight
Liz McMillen The year of deep insights
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen News after advertising may look like news before advertising
Ole Reißmann Un-faking the news
Adam Thomas The coming collaboration across Europe
Rachel Sklar Women are going to get loud
Cindy Royal Preparing the digital educator-scholar hybrid
Doris Truong Connecting with diverse perspectives
Alexis Lloyd Public trust for private realities
Gabriel Snyder The aberration of 20th-century journalism
Burt Herman Local news gets interesting
P. Kim Bui The year journalism teaches again
Reyhan Harmanci Bear witness — but then what?
Richard J. Tofel The country doesn’t trust us — but they do believe us
Sam Ford The year we talk about our awful metrics
Andrea Silenzi Podcasts dive into breaking news analysis
Amy O'Leary Not just covering communities, reaching them
Mary Meehan Feeling blue in a red state
Mandy Velez The audience is the source and the story
Laura Walker Authentic voices, not fake news
Nathalie Malinarich Making it easy
Molly de Aguiar Philanthropists galvanize around news
Jonathan Stray A boom in responsible conservative media
Melody Kramer Radically rethinking design
Swati Sharma Failing diversity is failing journalism
David Chavern Fake news gets solved
Emi Kolawole From empathy to community
Geetika Rudra Journalism is community
Emily Goligoski Incorporating audience feedback at scale
M. Scott Havens Quality advertising to pair with quality content
Hillary Frey Forests need to burn to regrow
Matt Waite The people running the media are the problem
Maria Bustillos “It’s true — I saw it on Facebook”
Mathew Ingram The Faustian Facebook dance continues
Guy Raz Inspiration and hope will matter more than ever
Jim Friedlich A banner year for venture philanthropy
Lee Glendinning A call for great editing
Jonathan Hunt Measurement companies get with the times
Olivia Ma The year collaboration beats competition
Corey Ford The year of the rebelpreneur
Cory Haik Navigating power in Trump’s America
Carla Zanoni Prioritizing emotional health
Taylor Lorenz “Selfie journalism” becomes a thing
Bill Adair The year of the fact-checking bot
Megan H. Chan Cultural reporting goes mainstream
Dannagal G. Young The return of the gatekeepers
David Skok What lies beyond paywalls
Liz Danzico The triumph of the small
Vivian Schiller Tested like never before
Joanne Lipman The year of the drone, really
Sarah Wolozin Virtual reality on the open web
Erin Pettigrew A year of reflection in tech
Dhiya Kuriakose The year of digital detoxing
Tanya Cordrey The resurgence of reach
Jon Slade Trusted news, at a premium
Libby Bawcombe Kids board the podcast train
Amy Webb Journalism as a service
Elizabeth Jensen Trust depends on the details
David Weigel A test for online speech
Samantha Barry Messaging apps go mainstream
Pablo Boczkowski Fake news and the future of journalism
Asma Khalid The year of the newsy podcast
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Truthiness in private spaces
Tracie Powell Building reader relationships
Dan Gillmor Fix the demand side of news too
Ryan McCarthy Platforms grow up or grow more toxic
Amie Ferris-Rotman Вслед за Россией
Andrew Ramsammy Rise of the rebel journalist
Francesco Marconi The year of augmented writing
Ray Soto VR moves from experiments to immersion
Tim Herrera The safe space of service journalism
Andrew Haeg The year of listening
Andy Rossback The year of the user
Michael Oreskes Reversing the erosion of democracy
Ernst-Jan Pfauth Earn trust by working for (and with) readers
Sara M. Watson There is no neutral interface
Sydette Harry Facing journalism’s history
Ariane Bernard Better data about your users
Tressie McMillan Cottom A path through the media’s coming legitimacy crisis
Christopher Meighan Unlocking a deeper mobile experience
Katie Zhu The year of minority media
Anita Zielina The sales funnel reaches (and changes) the newsroom
Rubina Madan Fillion Snapchat grows up
Sue Schardt Objectivity, fairness, balance, and love
Mario García Virtual reality on mobile leaps forward
Claire Wardle Verification takes center stage
S.P. Sullivan Baking transparency into our routines
Almar Latour Thanks, #fakenews
Eric Nuzum Podcasting stratifies into hard layers
Kathleen Kingsbury Print as a premium offering
Dan Colarusso Let’s make live video we can love
Renée Kaplan Pure reach has reached its limit
Erin Millar The bottom falls out of Canadian media
Michael Kuntz Trust is the new click
Caitlin Thompson High touch, high value
Bill Keller A healthy skepticism about data
Ståle Grut The battle for high-quality VR
Nicholas Quah Podcasting’s coming class war
Scott Dodd Nonprofits team up for impact
Millie Tran International expansion without colonial overtones
Lam Thuy Vo The primary source in the age of mechanical multiplication
An Xiao Mina 2017 is for the attention innovators
Mike Ragsdale A smarter information diet
Keren Goldshlager Defining a focus, and then saying no
Ken Schwencke Disaggregation and collection
Nushin Rashidian A rise in high-price, high-value subscriptions
Mira Lowe News literacy, bias, and “Hamilton”
Zizi Papacharissi Distracted journalism looks in the mirror
Robert Hernandez History will exclude you, again
Priya Ganapati Mobile websites are ready for reinvention
Jeremy Barr A terrible year for Tiers B through D
Juan Luis Sánchez Your predictions are our present
Alice Antheaume A new test for French media
Andrew Losowsky Building our own communities
Matt Karolian AI improves publishing
Julia Beizer Building a coherent core identity
Aja Bogdanoff Comments start pulling their weight
