The rise of video messaging

“What happens between now and virtual reality? It’s video messaging. Snapchat is already prepping us for this reality; the same with apps like Houseparty. They’re popularizing this idea that people are comfortable talking to each other via video.”

Yvonne Leow is president of the Asian American Journalists Association.

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Mike Caulfield   Refactoring media literacy for the networked age

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Nathalie Malinarich   Peak push

Jennifer Coogan   The future is female

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Andrew Haeg   The year journalists become relationship builders

Claire Wardle   Disinformation gets worse

Julia B. Chan   Looking for loyalty in all the right places

Ariana Tobin   Too tired to tap

Christopher Meighan   Passive partnership is in the rearview

Monique Judge   Letting black women tell their own stories

Tim Carmody   Watch out for Spotify

Jim Brady   With the people, not just of the people

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Rachel Davis Mersey   AI, with real smarts

Felix Salmon   Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin

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Julia Beizer   A longer view on the pivot

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Craig Newmark   Working together toward sustainable solutions

Gordon Crovitz   Serving readers over advertisers

Juliette De Maeyer   A responsible press criticism

Alexios Mantzarlis   Moving fake news research out of the lab

Sara M. Watson   Feeds will open up to new user-determined filters

Michelle Ferrier   The year of the great reckoning

Brian Lam   Sketchy ethics around product reviews

Lam Thuy Vo   Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest

Kinsey Wilson   Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up

Cristina Wilson   The year of the Instagram Story

Jassim Ahmad   Thriving on change

Justin Kosslyn   The year journalists become digital security experts

Molly de Aguiar   Good journalism won’t be enough

P. Kim Bui   The reckoning is only beginning

Hannah Cassius   The year of the echo-chamber escapists

Mandy Velez   texting is lit rn, fam

David Skok   Finding an information-life balance

Matt DeRienzo   A recession, then a collapse

Cory Haik   Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact

Kawandeep Virdee   Zines had it right all along

Jared Newman   Venture funding and digital news don’t mix

Cindy Royal   Your journalism curriculum is obsolete

Vanessa K. DeLuca   Women’s voices take center stage

Amie Ferris-Rotman   More female reporters abroad (please)

Adam Thomas   Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor

Carrie Brown-Smith   Transparency finally takes off

Rubina Madan Fillion   Unlocking the potential of AI

Kelsey Proud   No, no, no

Basile Simon   We need better career paths for news nerds

Matt Carlson   Attacks on the press will get worse

Umbreen Bhatti   The trust problem isn’t new

Marie Gilot   No assholes allowed

Ernst-Jan Pfauth   Publishing less to give readers more

Tanzina Vega   It’s time for media companies to #PassTheMic

Rodney Gibbs   Tech workers turn to journalism

Elizabeth Jensen   Show your work

Nikki Usher   The year of The Washington Post

Amy King   Let’s amplify visual voice

Sydette Harry   Listen to your corner and watch for the hook

Almar Latour   Conquering calm

S. Mitra Kalita   The arc of news and audience

Corey Johnson   The pro-fact resistance

Millie Tran and Stine Bauer Dahlberg   (Hint: It’s about your brand)

Sarah Marshall   Loyalty as the key performance indicator

Amy Webb   Listen to weak signals

Joyce Barnathan   It will be harder to bury the news

Eric Ulken   The year local publishers get smart(er) about change

Bill Keller   A growing turn to philanthropy

John Keefe   Scooped by AI

Damon Krukowski   Reviving the alt-weekly soul

Renée Kaplan   The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)

Emily Goligoski   Looking beyond news for inspiration

Mariana Moura Santos   Think local, act global

Usha Sahay   Wallets get opened

Sue Schardt   Jump the niche

Lucas Graves   From algorithms to institutions

Alice Antheaume   Are you fluent in AI?

Lanre Akinola   Making noise is not a strategy

Sally Lehrman   Trust comes first

Rick Berke   Value is the watchword

Francesco Marconi   The year of machine-to-machine journalism

Sam Sanders   Shine the light on ourselves

Ray Soto   VR reaches the next level

Rodney Benson   Better, less read, and less trusted

Jarrod Dicker   Honesty in advertising

Vivian Schiller   Pivot to tomorrow

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Joanne Lipman   Journalists inventing revenue streams

C.W. Anderson   The social media apocalypse

Debra Adams Simmons   And a woman shall lead them

Caitria O'Neill   The new court of public opinion

Trushar Barot   The Jio-fication of India

Dannagal G. Young   Stop covering politics as a game

Ståle Grut   Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks

Dheerja Kaur   Fun with subscription products

Doris Truong   Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes

Borja Echevarría   TV goes digital, digital goes TV

An Xiao Mina   Memes and visuals come to the fore

Niketa Patel   Live journalism comes of age

Burt Herman   Things get real

Neha Gandhi   Filler killers

Juleyka Lantigua   Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time

Andrew Losowsky   The year of resilience

Evie Nagy   Pivot to mobile video frustration

Federica Cherubini   The rise of bridge roles in news organizations

Alfred Hermida   Going beyond mobile-first

Pete Brown   Push alerts, personalized

Jamie Mottram   From pageviews to t-shirts

Jennifer Choi   Standing up for us and for each other

Alastair Coote   The year of self-improvement

Tamar Charney   We get serious about algorithms

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Kathleen McElroy   Building a news video experience native to mobile

Tanya Cordrey   Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention

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Dan Newman   A return to trust

Pia Frey   Address users as individuals