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Cindy Royal Your journalism curriculum is obsolete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