2018 brings a focus to revenue-first journalism, broader and stronger efforts to drive trust in news, and simple, short content and distribution formats.
José Zamora is vice president of strategic communications for Univision News.
Mira Lowe The year of the local watchdog
Yvonne Leow The rise of video messaging
Jared Newman Venture funding and digital news don’t mix
Steve Grove The midterms are an opportunity
Juliette De Maeyer A responsible press criticism
Kristen Muller The year of the voter
Amie Ferris-Rotman More female reporters abroad (please)
Dheerja Kaur Fun with subscription products
S. Mitra Kalita The arc of news and audience
Kinsey Wilson Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up
Sam Ford The year of investing in processes
Sally Lehrman Trust comes first
Michelle Ferrier The year of the great reckoning
Alexios Mantzarlis Moving fake news research out of the lab
Jennifer Coogan The future is female
An Xiao Mina Memes and visuals come to the fore
Cristina Wilson The year of the Instagram Story
Jim Moroney Newspapers have to be good enough for readers to pay for
Raju Narisetti Mirror, mirror on the wall
Kim Fox Audience teams diversify their approach
Luke O'Neil The end is already here
Debra Adams Simmons And a woman shall lead them
Kawandeep Virdee Zines had it right all along
Rodney Benson Better, less read, and less trusted
Sara M. Watson Feeds will open up to new user-determined filters
Kyle Ellis Let’s build our way out of this
Julia B. Chan Looking for loyalty in all the right places
Corey Johnson The pro-fact resistance
Brian Lam Sketchy ethics around product reviews
Frédéric Filloux External forces
Heather Bryant Building the ecosystems for collaboration
Zizi Papacharissi Women come back
Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán The editorial meeting of the future
Niketa Patel Live journalism comes of age
Pia Frey Address users as individuals
Rachel Davis Mersey AI, with real smarts
Sydette Harry Listen to your corner and watch for the hook
Tim Carmody Watch out for Spotify
Alfred Hermida Going beyond mobile-first
Cory Haik Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact
Amy Webb Listen to weak signals
P. Kim Bui The reckoning is only beginning
L. Gordon Crovitz Serving readers over advertisers
Matt DeRienzo A recession, then a collapse
Matt Boggie The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea
Dan Shanoff You down with OTT? (Yeah, DTC)
Marie Gilot No assholes allowed
Felix Salmon Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin
Nushin Rashidian Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives
Caitria O'Neill The new court of public opinion
Amy King Let’s amplify visual voice
Mary Walter-Brown Show a little vulnerability
Mi-Ai Parrish Blockchain and trust
Emily Goligoski Looking beyond news for inspiration
Claire Wardle Disinformation gets worse
Rodney Gibbs Tech workers turn to journalism
Carrie Brown-Smith Transparency finally takes off
Imaeyen Ibanga Longform video leads the way
Craig Newmark Working together toward sustainable solutions
Vanessa K. DeLuca Women’s voices take center stage
Rick Berke Value is the watchword
Raney Aronson-Rath Transparency is the antidote to fake news
Will Sommer The year local media gets conservative
Lam Thuy Vo Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest
Jessica Parker Gilbert Design connects storytelling and strategy
Monika Bauerlein The firehose of falsehood
Lanre Akinola Making noise is not a strategy
Monique Judge Letting black women tell their own stories
Alastair Coote The year of self-improvement
Julia Beizer A longer view on the pivot
Millie Tran and Stine Bauer Dahlberg (Hint: It’s about your brand)
Matt Carlson Attacks on the press will get worse
Mary Meehan Real lives are at stake in rural areas
Bill Keller A growing turn to philanthropy
Manoush Zomorodi Self-help as a publishing strategy
Jassim Ahmad Thriving on change
Jacqui Cheng Retailers move into content
Michelle Garcia Navigating journalistic transparency
Eric Nuzum Beyond the narrative arc
Jarrod Dicker Honesty in advertising
Mario García Storytelling finally adapts to mobile
Doris Truong Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes
Helen Havlak Keywords, not publishers, power the world’s biggest feeds
Miguel Castro The arrival of the impact producer
Pablo Boczkowski The rise of skeptical reading
Sam Sanders Shine the light on ourselves
Tracie Powell The muting of underserved voices
Jim Brady With the people, not just of the people
Borja Echevarría TV goes digital, digital goes TV
Laura E. Davis Writing answers before you know the question
Jennifer Choi Standing up for us and for each other
Alan Soon The rise of start of psychographic, micro-targeted media
Sarah Marshall Loyalty as the key performance indicator
Susie Banikarim R.I.P. Pivot to Video (2017–2017)
Nicholas Diakopoulos Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity
Justin Kosslyn The year journalists become digital security experts
Michael Kuntz The only pivot that might work
Tanya Cordrey Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention
Feli Sánchez The year for guerrilla user research
Kathleen McElroy Building a news video experience native to mobile
Juleyka Lantigua-Williams Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time
Matt Thompson Here come the attention managers
Mike Caulfield Refactoring media literacy for the networked age
Pete Brown Push alerts, personalized
Emma Carew Grovum Newsroom culture becomes a priority
Carlos Martínez de la Serna The new journalism commons
Andrew Haeg The year journalists become relationship builders
Umbreen Bhatti The trust problem isn’t new
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen The Snapchat scenario and the risk of more closed platforms
Mariana Moura Santos Think local, act global
Corey Ford The empire strikes back
Mariano Blejman News games rule
Molly de Aguiar Good journalism won’t be enough
José Zamora Revenue-first journalism
Taylor Lorenz Social and media will split
Adam Thomas Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor
Trushar Barot The Jio-fication of India
Elizabeth Jensen Show your work
Joanne Lipman Journalists inventing revenue streams
Christopher Meighan Passive partnership is in the rearview
Ernst-Jan Pfauth Publishing less to give readers more
Andrew Losowsky The year of resilience
Ruth Palmer Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities
Edward Roussel Eyes, ears, and brains
Daniel Trielli The rich get richer, the poor scramble
Basile Simon We need better career paths for news nerds
Errin Haines At the ballot, it’s time to count black women
Marcela Donini and Thiago Herdy Collaboration is the way forward for Brazilian journalism
Hannah Cassius The year of the echo-chamber escapists
Dannagal G. Young Stop covering politics as a game
Cindy Royal Your journalism curriculum is obsolete
Nikki Usher The year of The Washington Post
Lucas Graves From algorithms to institutions
Rachel Schallom Better design helps differentiate opinion and news
Aron Pilhofer We can’t leave the business to the business side any more
Francesco Marconi The year of machine-to-machine journalism
Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer Skepticism and narcissism
Mandy Velez texting is lit rn, fam
Evie Nagy Pivot to mobile video frustration
C.W. Anderson The social media apocalypse
Eric Ulken The year local publishers get smart(er) about change
Alice Antheaume Are you fluent in AI?
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Seeking trust in fragmented spaces
Tanzina Vega It’s time for media companies to #PassTheMic
Tamar Charney We get serious about algorithms
Vivian Schiller Pivot to tomorrow
Damon Krukowski Reviving the alt-weekly soul
Charo Henríquez Training is an investment, not an expense
Joyce Barnathan It will be harder to bury the news
Jesse Holcomb Information disorder, coming to a congressional district near you
Rubina Madan Fillion Unlocking the potential of AI
Nicholas Quah Stop talking trash about young people
Ray Soto VR reaches the next level
David Skok Finding an information-life balance
Ståle Grut Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks
Federica Cherubini The rise of bridge roles in news organizations
Richard J. Tofel The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention
Jamie Mottram From pageviews to t-shirts
Andrew Ramsammy The year ownership mattered