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