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