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