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