Jump the niche

“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.”

Smarts critique smarts who share with smarts who thumbs up or down or comments. Trump pro or con critiques Trump pro or con who shares with Trump pro or con who thumbs up or down or comments. Blue/Green/Red critiques Blue/Green/Red who shares with Blue/Green/Red who thumbs up or down or comments.

#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.

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

Mariana Moura Santos   Think local, act global

Sydette Harry   Listen to your corner and watch for the hook

Andrew Ramsammy   The year ownership mattered

Kristen Muller   The year of the voter

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

Nathalie Malinarich   Peak push

Kinsey Wilson   Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up

Michelle Garcia   Navigating journalistic transparency

Julia Beizer   A longer view on the pivot

Bill Keller   A growing turn to philanthropy

Caitria O'Neill   The new court of public opinion

Craig Newmark   Working together toward sustainable solutions

S. Mitra Kalita   The arc of news and audience

Marcela Donini and Thiago Herdy   Collaboration is the way forward for Brazilian journalism

Zizi Papacharissi   Women come back

Hannah Cassius   The year of the echo-chamber escapists

Kawandeep Virdee   Zines had it right all along

Usha Sahay   Wallets get opened

Tamar Charney   We get serious about algorithms

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

Tracie Powell   The muting of underserved voices

P. Kim Bui   The reckoning is only beginning

Niketa Patel   Live journalism comes of age

Mariano Blejman   News games rule

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

Tanzina Vega   It’s time for media companies to #PassTheMic

Borja Echevarría   TV goes digital, digital goes TV

Claire Wardle   Disinformation gets worse

Matt Thompson   Here come the attention managers

Ruth Palmer   Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities

Feli Sánchez   The year for guerrilla user research

Corey Ford   The empire strikes back

Eric Nuzum   Beyond the narrative arc

Alexios Mantzarlis   Moving fake news research out of the lab

Almar Latour   Conquering calm

Cristina Wilson   The year of the Instagram Story

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

Kelsey Proud   No, no, no

Pete Brown   Push alerts, personalized

Mira Lowe   The year of the local watchdog

Juliette De Maeyer   A responsible press criticism

Renée Kaplan   The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)

Raney Aronson-Rath   Transparency is the antidote to fake news

Jared Newman   Venture funding and digital news don’t mix

Hossein Derakhshan   Television has won

Joanne Lipman   Journalists inventing revenue streams

Nicholas Quah   Stop talking trash about young people

Andrew Losowsky   The year of resilience

Alastair Coote   The year of self-improvement

Mike Caulfield   Refactoring media literacy for the networked age

Jennifer Coogan   The future is female

Matt Boggie   The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea

David Skok   Finding an information-life balance

John Keefe   Scooped by AI

Mandy Velez   texting is lit rn, fam

Marie Gilot   No assholes allowed

Will Sommer   The year local media gets conservative

Laura E. Davis   Writing answers before you know the question

Alfred Hermida   Going beyond mobile-first

Cory Haik   Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact

José Zamora   Revenue-first journalism

Francesco Marconi   The year of machine-to-machine journalism

Nancy Watzman   Know thy TV

Jarrod Dicker   Honesty in advertising

Ariana Tobin   Too tired to tap

Nushin Rashidian   Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives

Taylor Lorenz   Social and media will split

Jessica Parker Gilbert   Design connects storytelling and strategy

Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán   The editorial meeting of the future

Monika Bauerlein   The firehose of falsehood

Michelle Ferrier   The year of the great reckoning

Damon Krukowski   Reviving the alt-weekly soul

Evie Nagy   Pivot to mobile video frustration

Adam Thomas   Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor

Raju Narisetti   Mirror, mirror on the wall

Amy King   Let’s amplify visual voice

Molly de Aguiar   Good journalism won’t be enough

Vanessa K. DeLuca   Women’s voices take center stage

Rodney Benson   Better, less read, and less trusted

Amie Ferris-Rotman   More female reporters abroad (please)

Nikki Usher   The year of The Washington Post

Sam Ford   The year of investing in processes

Vivian Schiller   Pivot to tomorrow

Federica Cherubini   The rise of bridge roles in news organizations

Caitlin Thompson   Podcasting models mature and diversify

Neha Gandhi   Filler killers

Burt Herman   Things get real

Lucas Graves   From algorithms to institutions

Daniel Trielli   The rich get richer, the poor scramble

Steve Grove   The midterms are an opportunity

Sam Sanders   Shine the light on ourselves

Mario García   Storytelling finally adapts to mobile

Dheerja Kaur   Fun with subscription products

Rick Berke   Value is the watchword

Jennifer Choi   Standing up for us and for each other

Jamie Mottram   From pageviews to t-shirts

Emma Carew Grovum   Newsroom culture becomes a priority

Emily Goligoski   Looking beyond news for inspiration

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

Jim Brady   With the people, not just of the people

Rodney Gibbs   Tech workers turn to journalism

Rachel Davis Mersey   AI, with real smarts

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

Ståle Grut   Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks

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

Trushar Barot   The Jio-fication of India

Rachel Schallom   Better design helps differentiate opinion and news

Carlos Martínez de la Serna   The new journalism commons

Mi-Ai Parrish   Blockchain and trust

Mary Walter-Brown   Show a little vulnerability

Sally Lehrman   Trust comes first

Juleyka Lantigua   Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time

Mary Meehan   Real lives are at stake in rural areas

Matt Carlson   Attacks on the press will get worse

Ernst-Jan Pfauth   Publishing less to give readers more

Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer   Skepticism and narcissism

Kathleen McElroy   Building a news video experience native to mobile

Miguel Castro   The arrival of the impact producer

Lam Thuy Vo   Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest

Sue Schardt   Jump the niche

Corey Johnson   The pro-fact resistance

Pia Frey   Address users as individuals

Felix Salmon   Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin

Frédéric Filloux   External forces

Carrie Brown-Smith   Transparency finally takes off

Kyle Ellis   Let’s build our way out of this

Rubina Madan Fillion   Unlocking the potential of AI

Heather Bryant   Building the ecosystems for collaboration

Paul Ford   Go global

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

Yvonne Leow   The rise of video messaging

Joanne McNeil   Gatekeeping the gatekeepers

Imaeyen Ibanga   Longform video leads the way

Dannagal G. Young   Stop covering politics as a game

AX Mina   Memes and visuals come to the fore

Umbreen Bhatti   The trust problem isn’t new

Edward Roussel   Eyes, ears, and brains

Christopher Meighan   Passive partnership is in the rearview

Andrew Haeg   The year journalists become relationship builders

Jake Levine   The return to now

Nicholas Diakopoulos   Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity

Debra Adams Simmons   And a woman shall lead them

Ray Soto   VR reaches the next level

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

Jacqui Cheng   Retailers move into content

Gordon Crovitz   Serving readers over advertisers

Amy Webb   Listen to weak signals

C.W. Anderson   The social media apocalypse

Sarah Marshall   Loyalty as the key performance indicator

Basile Simon   We need better career paths for news nerds

Kim Fox   Audience teams diversify their approach

Jassim Ahmad   Thriving on change

Elizabeth Jensen   Show your work

Doris Truong   Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes

Pablo Boczkowski   The rise of skeptical reading

Joyce Barnathan   It will be harder to bury the news

Manoush Zomorodi   Self-help as a publishing strategy

Tim Carmody   Watch out for Spotify

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

Cindy Royal   Your journalism curriculum is obsolete

Justin Kosslyn   The year journalists become digital security experts

Monique Judge   Letting black women tell their own stories

Charo Henríquez   Training is an investment, not an expense

Alice Antheaume   Are you fluent in AI?

Brian Lam   Sketchy ethics around product reviews

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

Matt DeRienzo   A recession, then a collapse

Richard Tofel   The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention

Tanya Cordrey   Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention

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

Luke O'Neil   The end is already here

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