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