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