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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Jessica Parker Gilbert Design connects storytelling and strategy
Craig Newmark Working together toward sustainable solutions
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Ruth Palmer Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities
Jennifer Coogan The future is female
Julia B. Chan Looking for loyalty in all the right places
Jassim Ahmad Thriving on change
Taylor Lorenz Social and media will split
Bill Keller A growing turn to philanthropy
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
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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
Nikki Usher The year of The Washington Post
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Kathleen McElroy Building a news video experience native to mobile
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Adam Thomas Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor
C.W. Anderson The social media apocalypse
Rick Berke Value is the watchword
Jared Newman Venture funding and digital news don’t mix
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
Marcela Donini and Thiago Herdy Collaboration is the way forward for Brazilian journalism
Corey Johnson The pro-fact resistance
Sally Lehrman Trust comes first
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Mike Caulfield Refactoring media literacy for the networked age
Tracie Powell The muting of underserved voices
Emma Carew Grovum Newsroom culture becomes a priority
Juliette De Maeyer A responsible press criticism
Emily Goligoski Looking beyond news for inspiration
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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
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
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
Carlos Martínez de la Serna The new journalism commons
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
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
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
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