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