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