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#metoo jumps the niche. Or does it?
The social web overtakes, exhausts, exhilarates, spreads, connects, reinforces, divides. Hashtag power. Deep in the niche, it’s easy to ignore those without time or equipment or mind space or care to be in the game.
Hello net neutrality! Goodbye!
What happens if we don’t trust The Social?
People eat together, pray, argue, dance, watch, listen. The physical space of community is an opening frontier where we will turn, more and more, to share and make our stories.
Sue Schardt is CEO of AIR.
Alastair Coote The year of self-improvement
Mary Walter-Brown Show a little vulnerability
Basile Simon We need better career paths for news nerds
AX Mina Memes and visuals come to the fore
Rodney Benson Better, less read, and less trusted
Mariana Moura Santos Think local, act global
Yvonne Leow The rise of video messaging
Andrew Losowsky The year of resilience
Rachel Davis Mersey AI, with real smarts
Cristina Wilson The year of the Instagram Story
Kristen Muller The year of the voter
Nicholas Diakopoulos Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity
Tamar Charney We get serious about algorithms
Rick Berke Value is the watchword
Christopher Meighan Passive partnership is in the rearview
Michelle Ferrier The year of the great reckoning
Damon Krukowski Reviving the alt-weekly soul
Renée Kaplan The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)
Jim Brady With the people, not just of the people
Juleyka Lantigua Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time
Will Sommer The year local media gets conservative
Andrew Ramsammy The year ownership mattered
Kim Fox Audience teams diversify their approach
Evie Nagy Pivot to mobile video frustration
Richard Tofel The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention
Emily Goligoski Looking beyond news for inspiration
Bill Keller A growing turn to philanthropy
Julia Beizer A longer view on the pivot
Alan Soon The rise of start of psychographic, micro-targeted media
Helen Havlak Keywords, not publishers, power the world’s biggest feeds
Errin Haines At the ballot, it’s time to count black women
Michael Kuntz The only pivot that might work
Mariano Blejman News games rule
Pete Brown Push alerts, personalized
Jennifer Coogan The future is female
Aron Pilhofer We can’t leave the business to the business side any more
Joyce Barnathan It will be harder to bury the news
Caitria O'Neill The new court of public opinion
Hannah Cassius The year of the echo-chamber escapists
Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer Skepticism and narcissism
Dan Shanoff You down with OTT? (Yeah, DTC)
Charo Henríquez Training is an investment, not an expense
Jassim Ahmad Thriving on change
Jesse Holcomb Information disorder, coming to a congressional district near you
Amy Webb Listen to weak signals
Jim Moroney Newspapers have to be good enough for readers to pay for
Tim Carmody Watch out for Spotify
Ray Soto VR reaches the next level
Susie Banikarim R.I.P. Pivot to Video (2017–2017)
Frédéric Filloux External forces
Zizi Papacharissi Women come back
Raju Narisetti Mirror, mirror on the wall
Dheerja Kaur Fun with subscription products
Andrew Haeg The year journalists become relationship builders
Jacqui Cheng Retailers move into content
Lucas Graves From algorithms to institutions
Monika Bauerlein The firehose of falsehood
Carrie Brown-Smith Transparency finally takes off
Julia B. Chan Looking for loyalty in all the right places
Steve Grove The midterms are an opportunity
Ruth Palmer Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities
Corey Ford The empire strikes back
Ståle Grut Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks
Craig Newmark Working together toward sustainable solutions
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Seeking trust in fragmented spaces
Manoush Zomorodi Self-help as a publishing strategy
Jessica Parker Gilbert Design connects storytelling and strategy
Marie Gilot No assholes allowed
Alfred Hermida Going beyond mobile-first
Pablo Boczkowski The rise of skeptical reading
Doris Truong Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes
Rodney Gibbs Tech workers turn to journalism
Matt Carlson Attacks on the press will get worse
Elizabeth Jensen Show your work
Caitlin Thompson Podcasting models mature and diversify
Mario García Storytelling finally adapts to mobile
Debra Adams Simmons And a woman shall lead them
Adam Thomas Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor
Cory Haik Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact
Matt DeRienzo A recession, then a collapse
Molly de Aguiar Good journalism won’t be enough
Mike Caulfield Refactoring media literacy for the networked age
Jarrod Dicker Honesty in advertising
Cindy Royal Your journalism curriculum is obsolete
Gordon Crovitz Serving readers over advertisers
Justin Kosslyn The year journalists become digital security experts
Vivian Schiller Pivot to tomorrow
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen The Snapchat scenario and the risk of more closed platforms
Eric Ulken The year local publishers get smart(er) about change
Sam Sanders Shine the light on ourselves
Jennifer Choi Standing up for us and for each other
Matt Boggie The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea
Rachel Schallom Better design helps differentiate opinion and news
Alice Antheaume Are you fluent in AI?
Emma Carew Grovum Newsroom culture becomes a priority
Brian Lam Sketchy ethics around product reviews
Matt Thompson Here come the attention managers
Felix Salmon Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin
Hossein Derakhshan Television has won
Mira Lowe The year of the local watchdog
Corey Johnson The pro-fact resistance
Sarah Marshall Loyalty as the key performance indicator
Monique Judge Letting black women tell their own stories
Lam Thuy Vo Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest
Carlos Martínez de la Serna The new journalism commons
Alexios Mantzarlis Moving fake news research out of the lab
Jamie Mottram From pageviews to t-shirts
S. Mitra Kalita The arc of news and audience
Niketa Patel Live journalism comes of age
Nushin Rashidian Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives
Edward Roussel Eyes, ears, and brains
Imaeyen Ibanga Longform video leads the way
Kathleen McElroy Building a news video experience native to mobile
Laura E. Davis Writing answers before you know the question
Sally Lehrman Trust comes first
C.W. Anderson The social media apocalypse
Joanne Lipman Journalists inventing revenue streams
Daniel Trielli The rich get richer, the poor scramble
Claire Wardle Disinformation gets worse
Amie Ferris-Rotman More female reporters abroad (please)
Sam Ford The year of investing in processes
Heather Bryant Building the ecosystems for collaboration
Sara M. Watson Feeds will open up to new user-determined filters
Mi-Ai Parrish Blockchain and trust
Trushar Barot The Jio-fication of India
Juliette De Maeyer A responsible press criticism
Vanessa K. DeLuca Women’s voices take center stage
Tanzina Vega It’s time for media companies to #PassTheMic
José Zamora Revenue-first journalism
Borja Echevarría TV goes digital, digital goes TV
Millie Tran and Stine Bauer Dahlberg (Hint: It’s about your brand)
Pia Frey Address users as individuals
Rubina Madan Fillion Unlocking the potential of AI
Marcela Donini and Thiago Herdy Collaboration is the way forward for Brazilian journalism
Sydette Harry Listen to your corner and watch for the hook
Feli Sánchez The year for guerrilla user research
Nicholas Quah Stop talking trash about young people
Michelle Garcia Navigating journalistic transparency
Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán The editorial meeting of the future
Raney Aronson-Rath Transparency is the antidote to fake news
Kawandeep Virdee Zines had it right all along
Umbreen Bhatti The trust problem isn’t new
Ernst-Jan Pfauth Publishing less to give readers more
Kyle Ellis Let’s build our way out of this
Mandy Velez texting is lit rn, fam
Taylor Lorenz Social and media will split
David Skok Finding an information-life balance
Amy King Let’s amplify visual voice
Kinsey Wilson Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up
Eric Nuzum Beyond the narrative arc
Jared Newman Venture funding and digital news don’t mix
Luke O'Neil The end is already here
Federica Cherubini The rise of bridge roles in news organizations
Tanya Cordrey Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention
Mary Meehan Real lives are at stake in rural areas
Dannagal G. Young Stop covering politics as a game
P. Kim Bui The reckoning is only beginning
Miguel Castro The arrival of the impact producer
Nikki Usher The year of The Washington Post