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