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