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