The year of the great reckoning

“The #metoo movement has come to journalism, but the #onlineabuse conversation will overtake that as journalists worldwide rebel against the 24/7 commodification of their lives.”

The #metoo movement has come to journalism, but the #onlineabuse conversation will overtake that as journalists worldwide rebel against the 24/7 commodification of their lives by media organizations and hold management to account for their always-on, social media policies and the pimping of their emotional wellbeing.

Michelle Ferrier is an associate professor of journalism at Ohio University.

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

Kyle Ellis   Let’s build our way out of this

Mary Meehan   Real lives are at stake in rural areas

Jennifer Choi   Standing up for us and for each other

Claire Wardle   Disinformation gets worse

Hossein Derakhshan   Television has won

Manoush Zomorodi   Self-help as a publishing strategy

Brian Lam   Sketchy ethics around product reviews

Rachel Davis Mersey   AI, with real smarts

Emily Goligoski   Looking beyond news for inspiration

Tim Carmody   Watch out for Spotify

Mary Walter-Brown   Show a little vulnerability

Federica Cherubini   The rise of bridge roles in news organizations

Nicholas Diakopoulos   Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity

Sam Ford   The year of investing in processes

Joanne McNeil   Gatekeeping the gatekeepers

Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán   The editorial meeting of the future

Mike Caulfield   Refactoring media literacy for the networked age

Ernst-Jan Pfauth   Publishing less to give readers more

Raney Aronson-Rath   Transparency is the antidote to fake news

Neha Gandhi   Filler killers

Yvonne Leow   The rise of video messaging

Dan Newman   A return to trust

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

Francesco Marconi   The year of machine-to-machine journalism

Tanya Cordrey   Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention

Kawandeep Virdee   Zines had it right all along

Damon Krukowski   Reviving the alt-weekly soul

Basile Simon   We need better career paths for news nerds

John Keefe   Scooped by AI

Alexios Mantzarlis   Moving fake news research out of the lab

Zizi Papacharissi   Women come back

Debra Adams Simmons   And a woman shall lead them

Frédéric Filloux   External forces

Sue Schardt   Jump the niche

Andrew Haeg   The year journalists become relationship builders

Nicholas Quah   Stop talking trash about young people

Jessica Parker Gilbert   Design connects storytelling and strategy

Jared Newman   Venture funding and digital news don’t mix

Rachel Schallom   Better design helps differentiate opinion and news

Richard Tofel   The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention

Amy Webb   Listen to weak signals

C.W. Anderson   The social media apocalypse

Mariano Blejman   News games rule

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

Cindy Royal   Your journalism curriculum is obsolete

Borja Echevarría   TV goes digital, digital goes TV

An Xiao Mina   Memes and visuals come to the fore

Monique Judge   Letting black women tell their own stories

Marie Gilot   No assholes allowed

Monika Bauerlein   The firehose of falsehood

Doris Truong   Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes

Andrew Ramsammy   The year ownership mattered

Vanessa K. DeLuca   Women’s voices take center stage

Matt DeRienzo   A recession, then a collapse

Imaeyen Ibanga   Longform video leads the way

Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer   Skepticism and narcissism

Ståle Grut   Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks

Nancy Watzman   Know thy TV

Jake Levine   The return to now

Cory Haik   Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact

Felix Salmon   Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin

Amy King   Let’s amplify visual voice

P. Kim Bui   The reckoning is only beginning

Hannah Cassius   The year of the echo-chamber escapists

Kristen Muller   The year of the voter

Bill Keller   A growing turn to philanthropy

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

Corey Ford   The empire strikes back

Tamar Charney   We get serious about algorithms

José Zamora   Revenue-first journalism

Steve Grove   The midterms are an opportunity

Pia Frey   Address users as individuals

Matt Thompson   Here come the attention managers

Jim Brady   With the people, not just of the people

Jennifer Coogan   The future is female

Julia Beizer   A longer view on the pivot

Renée Kaplan   The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)

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

Michelle Garcia   Navigating journalistic transparency

Matt Boggie   The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea

Rick Berke   Value is the watchword

Rodney Benson   Better, less read, and less trusted

Juliette De Maeyer   A responsible press criticism

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

Jamie Mottram   From pageviews to t-shirts

David Skok   Finding an information-life balance

Sam Sanders   Shine the light on ourselves

Michael Kuntz   The only pivot that might work

Michelle Ferrier   The year of the great reckoning

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

Kinsey Wilson   Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up

Mario García   Storytelling finally adapts to mobile

Lucas Graves   From algorithms to institutions

Mi-Ai Parrish   Blockchain and trust

Pete Brown   Push alerts, personalized

Umbreen Bhatti   The trust problem isn’t new

Elizabeth Jensen   Show your work

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

Paul Ford   Go global

S. Mitra Kalita   The arc of news and audience

Usha Sahay   Wallets get opened

Ruth Palmer   Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities

Adam Thomas   Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor

Molly de Aguiar   Good journalism won’t be enough

Joanne Lipman   Journalists inventing revenue streams

Caitria O'Neill   The new court of public opinion

Kelsey Proud   No, no, no

Andrew Losowsky   The year of resilience

Pablo Boczkowski   The rise of skeptical reading

Christopher Meighan   Passive partnership is in the rearview

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

Amie Ferris-Rotman   More female reporters abroad (please)

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

Miguel Castro   The arrival of the impact producer

Almar Latour   Conquering calm

Kim Fox   Audience teams diversify their approach

Jacqui Cheng   Retailers move into content

Taylor Lorenz   Social and media will split

Ray Soto   VR reaches the next level

Evie Nagy   Pivot to mobile video frustration

Nikki Usher   The year of The Washington Post

Craig Newmark   Working together toward sustainable solutions

Corey Johnson   The pro-fact resistance

Dannagal G. Young   Stop covering politics as a game

Will Sommer   The year local media gets conservative

Carrie Brown-Smith   Transparency finally takes off

Jassim Ahmad   Thriving on change

Alastair Coote   The year of self-improvement

Lam Thuy Vo   Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest

Juleyka Lantigua   Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time

Daniel Trielli   The rich get richer, the poor scramble

Trushar Barot   The Jio-fication of India

Kathleen McElroy   Building a news video experience native to mobile

Joyce Barnathan   It will be harder to bury the news

Sydette Harry   Listen to your corner and watch for the hook

Luke O'Neil   The end is already here

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Seeking trust in fragmented spaces

Vivian Schiller   Pivot to tomorrow

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

Matt Carlson   Attacks on the press will get worse

Justin Kosslyn   The year journalists become digital security experts

Gordon Crovitz   Serving readers over advertisers

Raju Narisetti   Mirror, mirror on the wall

Ariana Tobin   Too tired to tap

Eric Nuzum   Beyond the narrative arc

Carlos Martínez de la Serna   The new journalism commons

Tracie Powell   The muting of underserved voices

Nushin Rashidian   Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives

Rubina Madan Fillion   Unlocking the potential of AI

Mira Lowe   The year of the local watchdog

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

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

Laura E. Davis   Writing answers before you know the question

Cristina Wilson   The year of the Instagram Story

Dheerja Kaur   Fun with subscription products

Jarrod Dicker   Honesty in advertising

Nathalie Malinarich   Peak push

Niketa Patel   Live journalism comes of age

Lanre Akinola   Making noise is not a strategy

Burt Herman   Things get real

Emma Carew Grovum   Newsroom culture becomes a priority

Alfred Hermida   Going beyond mobile-first

Mariana Moura Santos   Think local, act global

Sally Lehrman   Trust comes first

Heather Bryant   Building the ecosystems for collaboration

Caitlin Thompson   Podcasting models mature and diversify

Charo Henríquez   Training is an investment, not an expense

Rodney Gibbs   Tech workers turn to journalism

Mandy Velez   texting is lit rn, fam

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

Edward Roussel   Eyes, ears, and brains

Feli Sánchez   The year for guerrilla user research

Sarah Marshall   Loyalty as the key performance indicator

Alice Antheaume   Are you fluent in AI?

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