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