In 2018, more nonprofit newsrooms will be launched than North Korean test missiles. As Facebook and Google suck up the ad revenues and all but a handful of media companies find digital subscriptions a hard sell, more and more will turn to philanthropy — foundations and the people I’ve learned to refer to as High Net Worth Individuals. (Even The New York Times is building a nonprofit arm in pursuit of foundation money.) One interesting thing to watch is whether new wealth (meaning especially tech wealth) will overcome its wariness of independent news media.
Bill Keller is editor-in-chief of The Marshall Project and former executive editor of The New York Times.
Ernst-Jan Pfauth Publishing less to give readers more
Felix Salmon Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin
Rodney Benson Better, less read, and less trusted
Hossein Derakhshan Television has won
Alfred Hermida Going beyond mobile-first
Manoush Zomorodi Self-help as a publishing strategy
Mario García Storytelling finally adapts to mobile
Debra Adams Simmons And a woman shall lead them
Joanne Lipman Journalists inventing revenue streams
Corey Ford The empire strikes back
Errin Haines Whack At the ballot, it’s time to count black women
Jassim Ahmad Thriving on change
Richard J. Tofel The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention
Alan Soon The rise of start of psychographic, micro-targeted media
Ståle Grut Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks
Hannah Cassius The year of the echo-chamber escapists
José Zamora Revenue-first journalism
Rachel Davis Mersey AI, with real smarts
Andrew Losowsky The year of resilience
Kristen Muller The year of the voter
Umbreen Bhatti The trust problem isn’t new
Tamar Charney We get serious about algorithms
Monique Judge Letting black women tell their own stories
Eric Nuzum Beyond the narrative arc
Sally Lehrman Trust comes first
Doris Truong Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes
Matt Boggie The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea
Jim Moroney Newspapers have to be good enough for readers to pay for
Steve Grove The midterms are an opportunity
Juliette De Maeyer A responsible press criticism
Borja Echevarría TV goes digital, digital goes TV
Sarah Marshall Loyalty as the key performance indicator
Raney Aronson-Rath Transparency is the antidote to fake news
Luke O'Neil The end is already here
Christopher Meighan Passive partnership is in the rearview
Mary Meehan Real lives are at stake in rural areas
Amy King Let’s amplify visual voice
Mike Caulfield Refactoring media literacy for the networked age
Zizi Papacharissi Women come back
Kim Fox Audience teams diversify their approach
Vivian Schiller Pivot to tomorrow
Nicholas Diakopoulos Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity
Molly de Aguiar Good journalism won’t be enough
Taylor Lorenz Social and media will split
Dheerja Kaur Fun with subscription products
P. Kim Bui The reckoning is only beginning
Edward Roussel Eyes, ears, and brains
Julia Beizer A longer view on the pivot
C.W. Anderson The social media apocalypse
Carlos Martínez de la Serna The new journalism commons
Jared Newman Venture funding and digital news don’t mix
Cindy Royal Your journalism curriculum is obsolete
Sam Ford The year of investing in processes
Emily Goligoski Looking beyond news for inspiration
Basile Simon We need better career paths for news nerds
Elizabeth Jensen Show your work
Carrie Brown-Smith Transparency finally takes off
Mi-Ai Parrish Blockchain and trust
Marie Gilot No assholes allowed
Cory Haik Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact
Michael Kuntz The only pivot that might work
Cristina Wilson The year of the Instagram Story
An Xiao Mina Memes and visuals come to the fore
Andrew Ramsammy The year ownership mattered
Feli Sánchez The year for guerrilla user research
Raju Narisetti Mirror, mirror on the wall
Will Sommer The year local media gets conservative
Susie Banikarim R.I.P. Pivot to Video (2017–2017)
Kathleen McElroy Building a news video experience native to mobile
Mira Lowe The year of the local watchdog
Mariano Blejman News games rule
Craig Newmark Working together toward sustainable solutions
Heather Bryant Building the ecosystems for collaboration
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Seeking trust in fragmented spaces
Julia B. Chan Looking for loyalty in all the right places
Emma Carew Grovum Newsroom culture becomes a priority
Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán The editorial meeting of the future
Matt DeRienzo A recession, then a collapse
Pete Brown Push alerts, personalized
L. Gordon Crovitz Serving readers over advertisers
Vanessa K. DeLuca Women’s voices take center stage
Mary Walter-Brown Show a little vulnerability
Jamie Mottram From pageviews to t-shirts
Pablo Boczkowski The rise of skeptical reading
Ruth Palmer Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities
Miguel Castro The arrival of the impact producer
Lam Thuy Vo Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen The Snapchat scenario and the risk of more closed platforms
Federica Cherubini The rise of bridge roles in news organizations
Dannagal G. Young Stop covering politics as a game
Rick Berke Value is the watchword
Michelle Garcia Navigating journalistic transparency
Damon Krukowski Reviving the alt-weekly soul
Evie Nagy Pivot to mobile video frustration
Niketa Patel Live journalism comes of age
Rachel Schallom Better design helps differentiate opinion and news
Caitlin Thompson Podcasting models mature and diversify
Jim Brady With the people, not just of the people
Mariana Moura Santos Think local, act global
Daniel Trielli The rich get richer, the poor scramble
Jarrod Dicker Honesty in advertising
Corey Johnson The pro-fact resistance
Charo Henríquez Training is an investment, not an expense
Amie Ferris-Rotman More female reporters abroad (please)
Jessica Parker Gilbert Design connects storytelling and strategy
Claire Wardle Disinformation gets worse
Joyce Barnathan It will be harder to bury the news
Alice Antheaume Are you fluent in AI?
Ray Soto VR reaches the next level
Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer Skepticism and narcissism
Lucas Graves From algorithms to institutions
Sydette Harry Listen to your corner and watch for the hook
Brian Lam Sketchy ethics around product reviews
Frédéric Filloux External forces
Kawandeep Virdee Zines had it right all along
David Skok Finding an information-life balance
Sam Sanders Shine the light on ourselves
Mandy Velez texting is lit rn, fam
Andrew Haeg The year journalists become relationship builders
Matt Carlson Attacks on the press will get worse
Jennifer Coogan The future is female
Renée Kaplan The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)
Helen Havlak Keywords, not publishers, power the world’s biggest feeds
Millie Tran and Stine Bauer Dahlberg (Hint: It’s about your brand)
Francesco Marconi The year of machine-to-machine journalism
Matt Thompson Here come the attention managers
Juleyka Lantigua-Williams Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time
Pia Frey Address users as individuals
Kyle Ellis Let’s build our way out of this
Adam Thomas Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor
Marcela Donini and Thiago Herdy Collaboration is the way forward for Brazilian journalism
Michelle Ferrier The year of the great reckoning
Alastair Coote The year of self-improvement
Bill Keller A growing turn to philanthropy
Sara M. Watson Feeds will open up to new user-determined filters
Nushin Rashidian Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives
Justin Kosslyn The year journalists become digital security experts
Joanne McNeil Gatekeeping the gatekeepers
Laura E. Davis Writing answers before you know the question
Monika Bauerlein The firehose of falsehood
Alexios Mantzarlis Moving fake news research out of the lab
Yvonne Leow The rise of video messaging
Amy Webb Listen to weak signals
Rodney Gibbs Tech workers turn to journalism
Jesse Holcomb Information disorder, coming to a congressional district near you
Kinsey Wilson Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up
Rubina Madan Fillion Unlocking the potential of AI
Dan Shanoff You down with OTT? (Yeah, DTC)
Imaeyen Ibanga Longform video leads the way
Jennifer Choi Standing up for us and for each other
Nicholas Quah Stop talking trash about young people
Tanya Cordrey Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention
Tracie Powell The muting of underserved voices
Eric Ulken The year local publishers get smart(er) about change
Nikki Usher The year of The Washington Post
S. Mitra Kalita The arc of news and audience
Tim Carmody Watch out for Spotify
Caitria O'Neill The new court of public opinion
Jacqui Cheng Retailers move into content
Tanzina Vega It’s time for media companies to #PassTheMic
Aron Pilhofer We can’t leave the business to the business side any more
