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Cindy Royal Your journalism curriculum is obsolete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