Blockchain and trust

“Having decentralized ledgers and data storage allows visibility into creation and tracking, engagement and follow-through in news and ads.”

One of the biggest challenges facing news organizations is the notion of trust and transparency. Blockchain has the potential to play a role in creating an element to create transparency for both news and advertising. Having decentralized ledgers and data storage allows visibility into creation and tracking, engagement and follow-through in news and ads. Cost and speed are issues, but they will improve as the exchanges emerge and merge and grow. Trust and transparency have been damaged by elements of technology — I’ll tout this as a possible part of reparation.

Mi-Ai Parrish, current president and publisher of the Arizona Republic, is joining the faculty of Arizona State University.

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Paul Ford   Go global

Sam Ford   The year of investing in processes

Raney Aronson-Rath   Transparency is the antidote to fake news

Jessica Parker Gilbert   Design connects storytelling and strategy

Craig Newmark   Working together toward sustainable solutions

Hossein Derakhshan   Television has won

Ruth Palmer   Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities

Jennifer Coogan   The future is female

Burt Herman   Things get real

Julia B. Chan   Looking for loyalty in all the right places

Jassim Ahmad   Thriving on change

Taylor Lorenz   Social and media will split

Sue Schardt   Jump the niche

Bill Keller   A growing turn to philanthropy

Ariana Tobin   Too tired to tap

Amie Ferris-Rotman   More female reporters abroad (please)

Sara M. Watson   Feeds will open up to new user-determined filters

Matt Boggie   The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea

Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán   The editorial meeting of the future

Felix Salmon   Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin

Cory Haik   Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact

José Zamora   Revenue-first journalism

Borja Echevarría   TV goes digital, digital goes TV

Heather Bryant   Building the ecosystems for collaboration

Caitlin Thompson   Podcasting models mature and diversify

Alastair Coote   The year of self-improvement

Joanne McNeil   Gatekeeping the gatekeepers

Mandy Velez   texting is lit rn, fam

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Charo Henríquez   Training is an investment, not an expense

Jacqui Cheng   Retailers move into content

Nicholas Quah   Stop talking trash about young people

Amy Webb   Listen to weak signals

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Adam Thomas   Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor

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Rick Berke   Value is the watchword

Jared Newman   Venture funding and digital news don’t mix

Dan Newman   A return to trust

Miguel Castro   The arrival of the impact producer

Caitria O'Neill   The new court of public opinion

Rachel Schallom   Better design helps differentiate opinion and news

Manoush Zomorodi   Self-help as a publishing strategy

Frédéric Filloux   External forces

Vanessa K. DeLuca   Women’s voices take center stage

Mira Lowe   The year of the local watchdog

Andrew Losowsky   The year of resilience

Francesco Marconi   The year of machine-to-machine journalism

Kyle Ellis   Let’s build our way out of this

Alan Soon   The rise of start of psychographic, micro-targeted media

Aron Pilhofer   We can’t leave the business to the business side any more

Damon Krukowski   Reviving the alt-weekly soul

Mario García   Storytelling finally adapts to mobile

Dheerja Kaur   Fun with subscription products

Ståle Grut   Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks

Matt DeRienzo   A recession, then a collapse

Eric Ulken   The year local publishers get smart(er) about change

Tanya Cordrey   Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention

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Corey Johnson   The pro-fact resistance

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Mike Caulfield   Refactoring media literacy for the networked age

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Jake Levine   The return to now

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Juliette De Maeyer   A responsible press criticism

Emily Goligoski   Looking beyond news for inspiration

Ernst-Jan Pfauth   Publishing less to give readers more

Mi-Ai Parrish   Blockchain and trust

Yvonne Leow   The rise of video messaging

Renée Kaplan   The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)

Luke O'Neil   The end is already here

Edward Roussel   Eyes, ears, and brains

Daniel Trielli   The rich get richer, the poor scramble

Joanne Lipman   Journalists inventing revenue streams

Lam Thuy Vo   Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest

Ray Soto   VR reaches the next level

Matt Carlson   Attacks on the press will get worse

Jesse Holcomb   Information disorder, coming to a congressional district near you

Eric Nuzum   Beyond the narrative arc

Nancy Watzman   Know thy TV

Kinsey Wilson   Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up

Niketa Patel   Live journalism comes of age

Michael Kuntz   The only pivot that might work

Alexios Mantzarlis   Moving fake news research out of the lab

Pablo Boczkowski   The rise of skeptical reading

Rubina Madan Fillion   Unlocking the potential of AI

Hannah Cassius   The year of the echo-chamber escapists

Juleyka Lantigua   Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time

Mariano Blejman   News games rule

John Keefe   Scooped by AI

Trushar Barot   The Jio-fication of India

Sydette Harry   Listen to your corner and watch for the hook

Dannagal G. Young   Stop covering politics as a game

Vivian Schiller   Pivot to tomorrow

Julia Beizer   A longer view on the pivot

Lucas Graves   From algorithms to institutions

Mary Walter-Brown   Show a little vulnerability

Joyce Barnathan   It will be harder to bury the news

Sarah Marshall   Loyalty as the key performance indicator

Umbreen Bhatti   The trust problem isn’t new

P. Kim Bui   The reckoning is only beginning

Monique Judge   Letting black women tell their own stories

Nathalie Malinarich   Peak push

Carlos Martínez de la Serna   The new journalism commons

Neha Gandhi   Filler killers

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen   The Snapchat scenario and the risk of more closed platforms

Zizi Papacharissi   Women come back

Andrew Haeg   The year journalists become relationship builders

Corey Ford   The empire strikes back

Michelle Garcia   Navigating journalistic transparency

Michelle Ferrier   The year of the great reckoning

Monika Bauerlein   The firehose of falsehood

Feli Sánchez   The year for guerrilla user research

Cindy Royal   Your journalism curriculum is obsolete

Kim Fox   Audience teams diversify their approach

Mariana Moura Santos   Think local, act global

Gordon Crovitz   Serving readers over advertisers

Kawandeep Virdee   Zines had it right all along

Mary Meehan   Real lives are at stake in rural areas

Imaeyen Ibanga   Longform video leads the way

Usha Sahay   Wallets get opened

Marie Gilot   No assholes allowed

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Seeking trust in fragmented spaces

Tim Carmody   Watch out for Spotify

Jarrod Dicker   Honesty in advertising

Rodney Gibbs   Tech workers turn to journalism

Almar Latour   Conquering calm

Jim Brady   With the people, not just of the people

Justin Kosslyn   The year journalists become digital security experts

Nushin Rashidian   Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives

Kristen Muller   The year of the voter

Doris Truong   Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes

Alfred Hermida   Going beyond mobile-first

Will Sommer   The year local media gets conservative

Nicholas Diakopoulos   Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity

Tamar Charney   We get serious about algorithms

Claire Wardle   Disinformation gets worse

Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer   Skepticism and narcissism

Elizabeth Jensen   Show your work

Richard Tofel   The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention

Raju Narisetti   Mirror, mirror on the wall

Christopher Meighan   Passive partnership is in the rearview

Helen Havlak   Keywords, not publishers, power the world’s biggest feeds

Rachel Davis Mersey   AI, with real smarts

Sam Sanders   Shine the light on ourselves

Brian Lam   Sketchy ethics around product reviews

Rodney Benson   Better, less read, and less trusted

Basile Simon   We need better career paths for news nerds

Dan Shanoff   You down with OTT? (Yeah, DTC)

Molly de Aguiar   Good journalism won’t be enough

Cristina Wilson   The year of the Instagram Story

Pete Brown   Push alerts, personalized

Jamie Mottram   From pageviews to t-shirts

Millie Tran and Stine Bauer Dahlberg   (Hint: It’s about your brand)

Andrew Ramsammy   The year ownership mattered

Laura E. Davis   Writing answers before you know the question

Jennifer Choi   Standing up for us and for each other

David Skok   Finding an information-life balance

Matt Thompson   Here come the attention managers

Jim Moroney   Newspapers have to be good enough for readers to pay for

Susie Banikarim   R.I.P. Pivot to Video (2017–2017)

Debra Adams Simmons   And a woman shall lead them

Errin Haines   At the ballot, it’s time to count black women

Kelsey Proud   No, no, no

Steve Grove   The midterms are an opportunity

Evie Nagy   Pivot to mobile video frustration

Alice Antheaume   Are you fluent in AI?

Lanre Akinola   Making noise is not a strategy

Federica Cherubini   The rise of bridge roles in news organizations

Pia Frey   Address users as individuals