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