It’s my belief the outcome of the 2016 election will be the genesis of a new form of journalist and journalism. The ill-equipped manner in which the media interacted with the populace and unduly influenced the election has led to the birth of a rebellion for what will be a new journalistic movement in 2017. The author wishes to caution readers that many of the ideas presented might be construed as advocacy or activism, but in an age of fake news, does it really matter?
The rebel journalist is someone who, armed with a chosen medium or space, will use their sacred privilege to research and disseminate the purest form of democratic truth and justice, free from restriction. Here is the rebel journalists’ manifesto:
Andrew Ramsammy is founder of UnitedPublic Strategies.
Joanne Lipman The year of the drone, really
Mandy Velez The audience is the source and the story
Mary Meehan Feeling blue in a red state
M. Scott Havens Quality advertising to pair with quality content
Andrew Ramsammy Rise of the rebel journalist
S.P. Sullivan Baking transparency into our routines
Jon Slade Trusted news, at a premium
Reyhan Harmanci Bear witness — but then what?
Annemarie Dooling UGC as a path out of the bubble
Ashley C. Woods Local journalism will fight a new fight
Millie Tran International expansion without colonial overtones
Rachel Schallom Stop flying over the flyover states
Dan Gillmor Fix the demand side of news too
Nushin Rashidian A rise in high-price, high-value subscriptions
Mira Lowe News literacy, bias, and “Hamilton”
Erin Pettigrew A year of reflection in tech
Juan Luis Sánchez Your predictions are our present
Sarah Wolozin Virtual reality on the open web
Taylor Lorenz “Selfie journalism” becomes a thing
Asma Khalid The year of the newsy podcast
Andrew Losowsky Building our own communities
Mike Ragsdale A smarter information diet
Gabriel Snyder The aberration of 20th-century journalism
Nathalie Malinarich Making it easy
Cory Haik Navigating power in Trump’s America
Michael Kuntz Trust is the new click
Katie Zhu The year of minority media
Emi Kolawole From empathy to community
Peter Sterne A dangerous anti-press mix
Robert Hernandez History will exclude you, again
Kathleen Kingsbury Print as a premium offering
Bill Keller A healthy skepticism about data
Vivian Schiller Tested like never before
Keren Goldshlager Defining a focus, and then saying no
Mario García Virtual reality on mobile leaps forward
Libby Bawcombe Kids board the podcast train
Julia Beizer Building a coherent core identity
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Truthiness in private spaces
Ariane Bernard Better data about your users
Rachel Sklar Women are going to get loud
Scott Dodd Nonprofits team up for impact
Almar Latour Thanks, #fakenews
Emily Goligoski Incorporating audience feedback at scale
Margarita Noriega From pinning tweets to tweeting pins
Corey Ford The year of the rebelpreneur
Pablo Boczkowski Fake news and the future of journalism
Olivia Ma The year collaboration beats competition
Ståle Grut The battle for high-quality VR
Aja Bogdanoff Comments start pulling their weight
Liz Danzico The triumph of the small
Mary Walter-Brown Getting comfortable asking for money
Ryan McCarthy Platforms grow up or grow more toxic
Michael Oreskes Reversing the erosion of democracy
Alice Antheaume A new test for French media
Sue Schardt Objectivity, fairness, balance, and love
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen News after advertising may look like news before advertising
Carla Zanoni Prioritizing emotional health
Ray Soto VR moves from experiments to immersion
Liz McMillen The year of deep insights
Cindy Royal Preparing the digital educator-scholar hybrid
Umbreen Bhatti A sense of journalists’ humanity
Kawandeep Virdee Moving deeper than the machine of clicks
Ole Reißmann Un-faking the news
Tracie Powell Building reader relationships
Melody Kramer Radically rethinking design
Alberto Cairo Communicating uncertainty to our readers
Jonathan Hunt Measurement companies get with the times
Jonathan Stray A boom in responsible conservative media
Tim Herrera The safe space of service journalism
Helen Havlak Chasing mobile search results
Dannagal G. Young The return of the gatekeepers
Matt Karolian AI improves publishing
Claire Wardle Verification takes center stage
Dan Colarusso Let’s make live video we can love
Jim Friedlich A banner year for venture philanthropy
Tim Griggs The year we stop taking sides
Ken Schwencke Disaggregation and collection
Eric Nuzum Podcasting stratifies into hard layers
David Chavern Fake news gets solved
Tanya Cordrey The resurgence of reach
Sydette Harry Facing journalism’s history
Lam Thuy Vo The primary source in the age of mechanical multiplication
Amie Ferris-Rotman Вслед за Россией
Maria Bustillos “It’s true — I saw it on Facebook”
Andrea Silenzi Podcasts dive into breaking news analysis
Bill Adair The year of the fact-checking bot
Caitlin Thompson High touch, high value
Molly de Aguiar Philanthropists galvanize around news
Zizi Papacharissi Distracted journalism looks in the mirror
Sara M. Watson There is no neutral interface
Erin Millar The bottom falls out of Canadian media
P. Kim Bui The year journalism teaches again
Geetika Rudra Journalism is community
Adam Thomas The coming collaboration across Europe
Lee Glendinning A call for great editing
Jeremy Barr A terrible year for Tiers B through D
Steve Henn The next revolution is voice
Dhiya Kuriakose The year of digital detoxing
Renée Kaplan Pure reach has reached its limit
Juliette De Maeyer and Dominique Trudel A rebirth of populist journalism
Richard Tofel The country doesn’t trust us — but they do believe us
Andrew Haeg The year of listening
David Weigel A test for online speech
Javaun Moradi What can we own?
Anita Zielina The sales funnel reaches (and changes) the newsroom
Priya Ganapati Mobile websites are ready for reinvention
Amy O'Leary Not just covering communities, reaching them
Christopher Meighan Unlocking a deeper mobile experience
Burt Herman Local news gets interesting
Rubina Madan Fillion Snapchat grows up
Alexis Lloyd Public trust for private realities
Ernst-Jan Pfauth Earn trust by working for (and with) readers
Sarah Marshall Focusing on the why of the click
Sam Ford The year we talk about our awful metrics
Andy Rossback The year of the user
Rebekah Monson Journalism is community-as-a-service
Samantha Barry Messaging apps go mainstream
Matt Waite The people running the media are the problem
Laura Walker Authentic voices, not fake news
Nicholas Quah Podcasting’s coming class war
Errin Haines Chaos or community?
Francesco Marconi The year of augmented writing
Hillary Frey Forests need to burn to regrow
Guy Raz Inspiration and hope will matter more than ever
Elizabeth Jensen Trust depends on the details
Swati Sharma Failing diversity is failing journalism
Mathew Ingram The Faustian Facebook dance continues
David Skok What lies beyond paywalls
Carrie Brown-Smith We won’t do enough
Megan H. Chan Cultural reporting goes mainstream
Moreno Cruz Osório The year of transparency in Brazilian journalism
Tressie McMillan Cottom A path through the media’s coming legitimacy crisis