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