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.
Trushar Barot The Jio-fication of India
Andrew Haeg The year journalists become relationship builders
Miguel Castro The arrival of the impact producer
Jessica Parker Gilbert Design connects storytelling and strategy
Damon Krukowski Reviving the alt-weekly soul
Juleyka Lantigua Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time
Julia Beizer A longer view on the pivot
Rachel Davis Mersey AI, with real smarts
Zizi Papacharissi Women come back
Gordon Crovitz Serving readers over advertisers
Hannah Cassius The year of the echo-chamber escapists
Elizabeth Jensen Show your work
Jim Moroney Newspapers have to be good enough for readers to pay for
Joanne McNeil Gatekeeping the gatekeepers
Jacqui Cheng Retailers move into content
Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer Skepticism and narcissism
S. Mitra Kalita The arc of news and audience
Vanessa K. DeLuca Women’s voices take center stage
Tim Carmody Watch out for Spotify
Nicholas Diakopoulos Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity
Mariano Blejman News games rule
C.W. Anderson The social media apocalypse
Basile Simon We need better career paths for news nerds
Edward Roussel Eyes, ears, and brains
Alice Antheaume Are you fluent in AI?
Renée Kaplan The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)
Manoush Zomorodi Self-help as a publishing strategy
Rodney Gibbs Tech workers turn to journalism
Jennifer Choi Standing up for us and for each other
Aron Pilhofer We can’t leave the business to the business side any more
Dannagal G. Young Stop covering politics as a game
Nikki Usher The year of The Washington Post
Evie Nagy Pivot to mobile video frustration
Niketa Patel Live journalism comes of age
Alfred Hermida Going beyond mobile-first
Carlos Martínez de la Serna The new journalism commons
Monika Bauerlein The firehose of falsehood
Rachel Schallom Better design helps differentiate opinion and news
Jassim Ahmad Thriving on change
Kristen Muller The year of the voter
Eric Nuzum Beyond the narrative arc
Tamar Charney We get serious about algorithms
Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán The editorial meeting of the future
Bill Keller A growing turn to philanthropy
Michelle Garcia Navigating journalistic transparency
Molly de Aguiar Good journalism won’t be enough
Mariana Moura Santos Think local, act global
Borja Echevarría TV goes digital, digital goes TV
Ernst-Jan Pfauth Publishing less to give readers more
Lam Thuy Vo Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest
Matt Thompson Here come the attention managers
Ruth Palmer Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities
Mira Lowe The year of the local watchdog
Corey Ford The empire strikes back
Ståle Grut Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks
Jennifer Coogan The future is female
Sydette Harry Listen to your corner and watch for the hook
Matt DeRienzo A recession, then a collapse
Nushin Rashidian Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives
Michael Kuntz The only pivot that might work
Michelle Ferrier The year of the great reckoning
Amy Webb Listen to weak signals
Jared Newman Venture funding and digital news don’t mix
Caitlin Thompson Podcasting models mature and diversify
Dan Shanoff You down with OTT? (Yeah, DTC)
Monique Judge Letting black women tell their own stories
Dheerja Kaur Fun with subscription products
Jim Brady With the people, not just of the people
Joyce Barnathan It will be harder to bury the news
Cory Haik Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen The Snapchat scenario and the risk of more closed platforms
Andrew Losowsky The year of resilience
Frédéric Filloux External forces
Jarrod Dicker Honesty in advertising
Felix Salmon Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin
Kawandeep Virdee Zines had it right all along
Imaeyen Ibanga Longform video leads the way
Taylor Lorenz Social and media will split
Craig Newmark Working together toward sustainable solutions
Debra Adams Simmons And a woman shall lead them
Daniel Trielli The rich get richer, the poor scramble
Emma Carew Grovum Newsroom culture becomes a priority
Caitria O'Neill The new court of public opinion
Alexios Mantzarlis Moving fake news research out of the lab
Corey Johnson The pro-fact resistance
Mary Meehan Real lives are at stake in rural areas
Susie Banikarim R.I.P. Pivot to Video (2017–2017)
Justin Kosslyn The year journalists become digital security experts
Claire Wardle Disinformation gets worse
Lanre Akinola Making noise is not a strategy
Tanzina Vega It’s time for media companies to #PassTheMic
Cristina Wilson The year of the Instagram Story
Umbreen Bhatti The trust problem isn’t new
Steve Grove The midterms are an opportunity
Marcela Donini and Thiago Herdy Collaboration is the way forward for Brazilian journalism
Kyle Ellis Let’s build our way out of this
Rubina Madan Fillion Unlocking the potential of AI
Christopher Meighan Passive partnership is in the rearview
Pablo Boczkowski The rise of skeptical reading
Kinsey Wilson Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up
Emily Goligoski Looking beyond news for inspiration
Juliette De Maeyer A responsible press criticism
Raju Narisetti Mirror, mirror on the wall
Alan Soon The rise of start of psychographic, micro-targeted media
Rick Berke Value is the watchword
Luke O'Neil The end is already here
Tanya Cordrey Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention
Kathleen McElroy Building a news video experience native to mobile
Mary Walter-Brown Show a little vulnerability
Matt Boggie The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea
Alastair Coote The year of self-improvement
Cindy Royal Your journalism curriculum is obsolete
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Seeking trust in fragmented spaces
Brian Lam Sketchy ethics around product reviews
Laura E. Davis Writing answers before you know the question
Amie Ferris-Rotman More female reporters abroad (please)
Mike Caulfield Refactoring media literacy for the networked age
Mandy Velez texting is lit rn, fam
Tracie Powell The muting of underserved voices
Ray Soto VR reaches the next level
Carrie Brown-Smith Transparency finally takes off
Sara M. Watson Feeds will open up to new user-determined filters
Amy King Let’s amplify visual voice
David Skok Finding an information-life balance
Mario García Storytelling finally adapts to mobile
Pete Brown Push alerts, personalized
Matt Carlson Attacks on the press will get worse
Doris Truong Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes
Vivian Schiller Pivot to tomorrow
Yvonne Leow The rise of video messaging
Errin Haines At the ballot, it’s time to count black women
P. Kim Bui The reckoning is only beginning
Eric Ulken The year local publishers get smart(er) about change
An Xiao Mina Memes and visuals come to the fore
Feli Sánchez The year for guerrilla user research
José Zamora Revenue-first journalism
Raney Aronson-Rath Transparency is the antidote to fake news
Federica Cherubini The rise of bridge roles in news organizations
Richard Tofel The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention
Lucas Graves From algorithms to institutions
Francesco Marconi The year of machine-to-machine journalism
Helen Havlak Keywords, not publishers, power the world’s biggest feeds
Sam Sanders Shine the light on ourselves
Jamie Mottram From pageviews to t-shirts
Will Sommer The year local media gets conservative
Millie Tran and Stine Bauer Dahlberg (Hint: It’s about your brand)
Jesse Holcomb Information disorder, coming to a congressional district near you
Heather Bryant Building the ecosystems for collaboration
Pia Frey Address users as individuals
Rodney Benson Better, less read, and less trusted
Joanne Lipman Journalists inventing revenue streams
Andrew Ramsammy The year ownership mattered
Kim Fox Audience teams diversify their approach
Adam Thomas Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor
Julia B. Chan Looking for loyalty in all the right places
Sarah Marshall Loyalty as the key performance indicator
Hossein Derakhshan Television has won
Sam Ford The year of investing in processes
Mi-Ai Parrish Blockchain and trust