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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Hossein Derakhshan   Television has won

Ray Soto   VR reaches the next level

Manoush Zomorodi   Self-help as a publishing strategy

Andrew Haeg   The year journalists become relationship builders

Brian Lam   Sketchy ethics around product reviews

Mary Meehan   Real lives are at stake in rural areas

Nancy Watzman   Know thy TV

Corey Johnson   The pro-fact resistance

Paul Ford   Go global

Vivian Schiller   Pivot to tomorrow

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

Rick Berke   Value is the watchword

Claire Wardle   Disinformation gets worse

Mario García   Storytelling finally adapts to mobile

Kelsey Proud   No, no, no

José Zamora   Revenue-first journalism

Mira Lowe   The year of the local watchdog

Steve Grove   The midterms are an opportunity

Michael Kuntz   The only pivot that might work

Alastair Coote   The year of self-improvement

Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán   The editorial meeting of the future

Rodney Gibbs   Tech workers turn to journalism

Jim Moroney   Newspapers have to be good enough for readers to pay for

Jennifer Coogan   The future is female

Pia Frey   Address users as individuals

Caitlin Thompson   Podcasting models mature and diversify

Niketa Patel   Live journalism comes of age

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

Rodney Benson   Better, less read, and less trusted

Neha Gandhi   Filler killers

Emma Carew Grovum   Newsroom culture becomes a priority

Matt Thompson   Here come the attention managers

C.W. Anderson   The social media apocalypse

Rachel Schallom   Better design helps differentiate opinion and news

Tanya Cordrey   Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention

Nathalie Malinarich   Peak push

S. Mitra Kalita   The arc of news and audience

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen   The Snapchat scenario and the risk of more closed platforms

Ernst-Jan Pfauth   Publishing less to give readers more

Jim Brady   With the people, not just of the people

Aron Pilhofer   We can’t leave the business to the business side any more

Renée Kaplan   The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)

Carlos Martínez de la Serna   The new journalism commons

Marcela Donini and Thiago Herdy   Collaboration is the way forward for Brazilian journalism

Lam Thuy Vo   Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest

Tim Carmody   Watch out for Spotify

Jessica Parker Gilbert   Design connects storytelling and strategy

Charo Henríquez   Training is an investment, not an expense

Zizi Papacharissi   Women come back

Juleyka Lantigua   Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time

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

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

Dannagal G. Young   Stop covering politics as a game

Jassim Ahmad   Thriving on change

Marie Gilot   No assholes allowed

Imaeyen Ibanga   Longform video leads the way

Daniel Trielli   The rich get richer, the poor scramble

Debra Adams Simmons   And a woman shall lead them

Jennifer Choi   Standing up for us and for each other

Kyle Ellis   Let’s build our way out of this

Borja Echevarría   TV goes digital, digital goes TV

Adam Thomas   Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor

Luke O'Neil   The end is already here

Juliette De Maeyer   A responsible press criticism

Mi-Ai Parrish   Blockchain and trust

Dan Newman   A return to trust

Laura E. Davis   Writing answers before you know the question

Julia Beizer   A longer view on the pivot

Carrie Brown   Transparency finally takes off

Nushin Rashidian   Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives

Mary Walter-Brown   Show a little vulnerability

Raney Aronson-Rath   Transparency is the antidote to fake news

Craig Newmark   Working together toward sustainable solutions

Sue Schardt   Jump the niche

Joyce Barnathan   It will be harder to bury the news

Elizabeth Jensen   Show your work

Nik Usher   The year of The Washington Post

Sally Lehrman   Trust comes first

Jacqui Cheng   Retailers move into content

Michelle Ferrier   The year of the great reckoning

Kim Fox   Audience teams diversify their approach

Lucas Graves   From algorithms to institutions

Feli Sánchez   The year for guerrilla user research

Usha Sahay   Wallets get opened

Nicholas Quah   Stop talking trash about young people

Doris Truong   Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes

Ariana Tobin   Too tired to tap

Kawandeep Virdee   Zines had it right all along

Miguel Castro   The arrival of the impact producer

AX Mina   Memes and visuals come to the fore

Dan Shanoff   You down with OTT? (Yeah, DTC)

Vanessa K. DeLuca   Women’s voices take center stage

Will Sommer   The year local media gets conservative

Edward Roussel   Eyes, ears, and brains

P. Kim Bui   The reckoning is only beginning

Eric Nuzum   Beyond the narrative arc

Alexios Mantzarlis   Moving fake news research out of the lab

Tracie Powell   The muting of underserved voices

Jake Levine   The return to now

Damon Krukowski   Reviving the alt-weekly soul

Corey Ford   The empire strikes back

Joanne McNeil   Gatekeeping the gatekeepers

Kristen Muller   The year of the voter

David Skok   Finding an information-life balance

Burt Herman   Things get real

Cory Haik   Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact

Kathleen McElroy   Building a news video experience native to mobile

Gordon Crovitz   Serving readers over advertisers

Matt Carlson   Attacks on the press will get worse

Dheerja Kaur   Fun with subscription products

Trushar Barot   The Jio-fication of India

Kinsey Wilson   Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up

Hannah Cassius   The year of the echo-chamber escapists

Christopher Meighan   Passive partnership is in the rearview

Cindy Royal   Your journalism curriculum is obsolete

Molly de Aguiar   Good journalism won’t be enough

Lanre Akinola   Making noise is not a strategy

Francesco Marconi   The year of machine-to-machine journalism

Monika Bauerlein   The firehose of falsehood

Cristina Wilson   The year of the Instagram Story

Mariano Blejman   News games rule

Sam Sanders   Shine the light on ourselves

Jared Newman   Venture funding and digital news don’t mix

Alice Antheaume   Are you fluent in AI?

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

Bill Keller   A growing turn to philanthropy

Ruth Palmer   Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities

Sarah Marshall   Loyalty as the key performance indicator

Ståle Grut   Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks

Mike Caulfield   Refactoring media literacy for the networked age

Frédéric Filloux   External forces

Jesse Holcomb   Information disorder, coming to a congressional district near you

Jamie Mottram   From pageviews to t-shirts

Amy King   Let’s amplify visual voice

Justin Kosslyn   The year journalists become digital security experts

Helen Havlak   Keywords, not publishers, power the world’s biggest feeds

Mariana Moura Santos   Think local, act global

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Seeking trust in fragmented spaces

Matt Boggie   The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea

Mandy Velez   texting is lit rn, fam

Alfred Hermida   Going beyond mobile-first

Andrew Ramsammy   The year ownership mattered

Matt DeRienzo   A recession, then a collapse

Pablo Boczkowski   The rise of skeptical reading

John Keefe   Scooped by AI

Sydette Harry   Listen to your corner and watch for the hook

Susie Banikarim   R.I.P. Pivot to Video (2017–2017)

Umbreen Bhatti   The trust problem isn’t new

Basile Simon   We need better career paths for news nerds

Sam Ford   The year of investing in processes

Joanne Lipman   Journalists inventing revenue streams

Amy Webb   Listen to weak signals

Nicholas Diakopoulos   Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity

Taylor Lorenz   Social and media will split

Emily Goligoski   Looking beyond news for inspiration

Errin Haines   At the ballot, it’s time to count black women

Amie Ferris-Rotman   More female reporters abroad (please)

Tamar Charney   We get serious about algorithms

Almar Latour   Conquering calm

Yvonne Leow   The rise of video messaging

Richard Tofel   The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention

Jarrod Dicker   Honesty in advertising

Felix Salmon   Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin

Alan Soon   The rise of start of psychographic, micro-targeted media

Heather Bryant   Building the ecosystems for collaboration

Federica Cherubini   The rise of bridge roles in news organizations

Evie Nagy   Pivot to mobile video frustration

Monique Judge   Letting black women tell their own stories

Rachel Davis Mersey   AI, with real smarts

Raju Narisetti   Mirror, mirror on the wall

Pete Brown   Push alerts, personalized

Rubina Madan Fillion   Unlocking the potential of AI

Andrew Losowsky   The year of resilience

Caitria O'Neill   The new court of public opinion

Michelle Garcia   Navigating journalistic transparency