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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Amie Ferris-Rotman   More female reporters abroad (please)

Elizabeth Jensen   Show your work

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Monika Bauerlein   The firehose of falsehood

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Michelle Ferrier   The year of the great reckoning

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Alfred Hermida   Going beyond mobile-first

Matt Boggie   The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea

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

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Tracie Powell   The muting of underserved voices

Jamie Mottram   From pageviews to t-shirts

José Zamora   Revenue-first journalism

Monique Judge   Letting black women tell their own stories

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Federica Cherubini   The rise of bridge roles in news organizations

Rachel Schallom   Better design helps differentiate opinion and news

Doris Truong   Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes

Jake Levine   The return to now

Andrew Haeg   The year journalists become relationship builders

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

Sarah Marshall   Loyalty as the key performance indicator

Cindy Royal   Your journalism curriculum is obsolete

Edward Roussel   Eyes, ears, and brains

Yvonne Leow   The rise of video messaging

Lam Thuy Vo   Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest

Vanessa K. DeLuca   Women’s voices take center stage

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Steve Grove   The midterms are an opportunity

Juleyka Lantigua   Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time

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

Sue Schardt   Jump the niche

Pia Frey   Address users as individuals

Rodney Benson   Better, less read, and less trusted

Burt Herman   Things get real

Nancy Watzman   Know thy TV

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Kim Fox   Audience teams diversify their approach

Hannah Cassius   The year of the echo-chamber escapists

Nicholas Diakopoulos   Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity

Joanne McNeil   Gatekeeping the gatekeepers

Kyle Ellis   Let’s build our way out of this

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Alastair Coote   The year of self-improvement

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Rubina Madan Fillion   Unlocking the potential of AI

Caitria O'Neill   The new court of public opinion

Almar Latour   Conquering calm

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Justin Kosslyn   The year journalists become digital security experts

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Joyce Barnathan   It will be harder to bury the news

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Daniel Trielli   The rich get richer, the poor scramble

Basile Simon   We need better career paths for news nerds

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

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Eric Nuzum   Beyond the narrative arc

Lucas Graves   From algorithms to institutions

Claire Wardle   Disinformation gets worse

Dannagal G. Young   Stop covering politics as a game

Caitlin Thompson   Podcasting models mature and diversify

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Matt Carlson   Attacks on the press will get worse

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