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

Juliette De Maeyer   A responsible press criticism

Jim Brady   With the people, not just of the people

Luke O'Neil   The end is already here

Mary Walter-Brown   Show a little vulnerability

Tanya Cordrey   Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention

Sue Schardt   Jump the niche

Julia Beizer   A longer view on the pivot

Imaeyen Ibanga   Longform video leads the way

Rick Berke   Value is the watchword

Monique Judge   Letting black women tell their own stories

Nathalie Malinarich   Peak push

Niketa Patel   Live journalism comes of age

Renée Kaplan   The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)

C.W. Anderson   The social media apocalypse

Hannah Cassius   The year of the echo-chamber escapists

Laura E. Davis   Writing answers before you know the question

Amie Ferris-Rotman   More female reporters abroad (please)

Ruth Palmer   Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities

AX Mina   Memes and visuals come to the fore

Mariana Moura Santos   Think local, act global

Bill Keller   A growing turn to philanthropy

Usha Sahay   Wallets get opened

Christopher Meighan   Passive partnership is in the rearview

Alice Antheaume   Are you fluent in AI?

Ernst-Jan Pfauth   Publishing less to give readers more

Kinsey Wilson   Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up

Corey Johnson   The pro-fact resistance

Kim Fox   Audience teams diversify their approach

Amy King   Let’s amplify visual voice

Sam Sanders   Shine the light on ourselves

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

Burt Herman   Things get real

Adam Thomas   Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor

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

Borja Echevarría   TV goes digital, digital goes TV

Caitlin Thompson   Podcasting models mature and diversify

Joanne McNeil   Gatekeeping the gatekeepers

Richard Tofel   The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention

Alastair Coote   The year of self-improvement

Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán   The editorial meeting of the future

Sally Lehrman   Trust comes first

Jacqui Cheng   Retailers move into content

Joyce Barnathan   It will be harder to bury the news

Alexios Mantzarlis   Moving fake news research out of the lab

Heather Bryant   Building the ecosystems for collaboration

Elizabeth Jensen   Show your work

Alfred Hermida   Going beyond mobile-first

Andrew Losowsky   The year of resilience

Will Sommer   The year local media gets conservative

Pia Frey   Address users as individuals

Kathleen McElroy   Building a news video experience native to mobile

Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer   Skepticism and narcissism

Tracie Powell   The muting of underserved voices

Jared Newman   Venture funding and digital news don’t mix

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

Debra Adams Simmons   And a woman shall lead them

Nikki Usher   The year of The Washington Post

Raney Aronson-Rath   Transparency is the antidote to fake news

Michael Kuntz   The only pivot that might work

Felix Salmon   Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin

Marie Gilot   No assholes allowed

Kelsey Proud   No, no, no

Damon Krukowski   Reviving the alt-weekly soul

Michelle Ferrier   The year of the great reckoning

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

Cindy Royal   Your journalism curriculum is obsolete

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

Mi-Ai Parrish   Blockchain and trust

Jarrod Dicker   Honesty in advertising

Frédéric Filloux   External forces

Taylor Lorenz   Social and media will split

Carrie Brown-Smith   Transparency finally takes off

Manoush Zomorodi   Self-help as a publishing strategy

Tim Carmody   Watch out for Spotify

Matt Thompson   Here come the attention managers

Charo Henríquez   Training is an investment, not an expense

Andrew Haeg   The year journalists become relationship builders

Monika Bauerlein   The firehose of falsehood

Trushar Barot   The Jio-fication of India

Vanessa K. DeLuca   Women’s voices take center stage

Ray Soto   VR reaches the next level

Sam Ford   The year of investing in processes

David Skok   Finding an information-life balance

Caitria O'Neill   The new court of public opinion

Umbreen Bhatti   The trust problem isn’t new

Justin Kosslyn   The year journalists become digital security experts

John Keefe   Scooped by AI

Miguel Castro   The arrival of the impact producer

Claire Wardle   Disinformation gets worse

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

Pablo Boczkowski   The rise of skeptical reading

Lucas Graves   From algorithms to institutions

Emily Goligoski   Looking beyond news for inspiration

Mariano Blejman   News games rule

Juleyka Lantigua   Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time

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

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

Rachel Davis Mersey   AI, with real smarts

Molly de Aguiar   Good journalism won’t be enough

Feli Sánchez   The year for guerrilla user research

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

Jessica Parker Gilbert   Design connects storytelling and strategy

Vivian Schiller   Pivot to tomorrow

Mary Meehan   Real lives are at stake in rural areas

Sarah Marshall   Loyalty as the key performance indicator

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

Ståle Grut   Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks

Eric Nuzum   Beyond the narrative arc

Lanre Akinola   Making noise is not a strategy

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

Matt Boggie   The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea

Jake Levine   The return to now

Rodney Gibbs   Tech workers turn to journalism

Raju Narisetti   Mirror, mirror on the wall

Lam Thuy Vo   Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest

Craig Newmark   Working together toward sustainable solutions

Corey Ford   The empire strikes back

Andrew Ramsammy   The year ownership mattered

Kyle Ellis   Let’s build our way out of this

Daniel Trielli   The rich get richer, the poor scramble

Yvonne Leow   The rise of video messaging

Tamar Charney   We get serious about algorithms

Paul Ford   Go global

Evie Nagy   Pivot to mobile video frustration

Emma Carew Grovum   Newsroom culture becomes a priority

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

Jennifer Choi   Standing up for us and for each other

Nicholas Quah   Stop talking trash about young people

Joanne Lipman   Journalists inventing revenue streams

Mario García   Storytelling finally adapts to mobile

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

Rachel Schallom   Better design helps differentiate opinion and news

Kawandeep Virdee   Zines had it right all along

Edward Roussel   Eyes, ears, and brains

Cristina Wilson   The year of the Instagram Story

Basile Simon   We need better career paths for news nerds

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

P. Kim Bui   The reckoning is only beginning

Steve Grove   The midterms are an opportunity

Nushin Rashidian   Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives

Jennifer Coogan   The future is female

Matt Carlson   Attacks on the press will get worse

Federica Cherubini   The rise of bridge roles in news organizations

Nancy Watzman   Know thy TV

Kristen Muller   The year of the voter

Hossein Derakhshan   Television has won

Cory Haik   Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact

Michelle Garcia   Navigating journalistic transparency

Sydette Harry   Listen to your corner and watch for the hook

Dheerja Kaur   Fun with subscription products

Pete Brown   Push alerts, personalized

Dannagal G. Young   Stop covering politics as a game

Rodney Benson   Better, less read, and less trusted

Nicholas Diakopoulos   Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity

Gordon Crovitz   Serving readers over advertisers

Amy Webb   Listen to weak signals

Almar Latour   Conquering calm

S. Mitra Kalita   The arc of news and audience

Ariana Tobin   Too tired to tap

Doris Truong   Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes

Zizi Papacharissi   Women come back

Francesco Marconi   The year of machine-to-machine journalism

Mandy Velez   texting is lit rn, fam

Mira Lowe   The year of the local watchdog

Brian Lam   Sketchy ethics around product reviews

Neha Gandhi   Filler killers

Dan Newman   A return to trust

Matt DeRienzo   A recession, then a collapse

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Seeking trust in fragmented spaces

Carlos Martínez de la Serna   The new journalism commons

Rubina Madan Fillion   Unlocking the potential of AI

Jamie Mottram   From pageviews to t-shirts

Jassim Ahmad   Thriving on change

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