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