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