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.
Brian Lam Sketchy ethics around product reviews
L. Gordon Crovitz Serving readers over advertisers
Nicholas Quah Stop talking trash about young people
Sam Ford The year of investing in processes
Daniel Trielli The rich get richer, the poor scramble
Michael Kuntz The only pivot that might work
Kathleen McElroy Building a news video experience native to mobile
Steve Grove The midterms are an opportunity
Jesse Holcomb Information disorder, coming to a congressional district near you
Frédéric Filloux External forces
Tanzina Vega It’s time for media companies to #PassTheMic
Kim Fox Audience teams diversify their approach
Alfred Hermida Going beyond mobile-first
Mario García Storytelling finally adapts to mobile
Michelle Garcia Navigating journalistic transparency
Mi-Ai Parrish Blockchain and trust
Rick Berke Value is the watchword
Jacqui Cheng Retailers move into content
Ray Soto VR reaches the next level
Juleyka Lantigua-Williams Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Seeking trust in fragmented spaces
Evie Nagy Pivot to mobile video frustration
Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán The editorial meeting of the future
Adam Thomas Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor
Carrie Brown-Smith Transparency finally takes off
Jennifer Coogan The future is female
Cindy Royal Your journalism curriculum is obsolete
Jarrod Dicker Honesty in advertising
Alexios Mantzarlis Moving fake news research out of the lab
Debra Adams Simmons And a woman shall lead them
Rodney Benson Better, less read, and less trusted
Niketa Patel Live journalism comes of age
Joanne McNeil Gatekeeping the gatekeepers
Caitria O'Neill The new court of public opinion
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen The Snapchat scenario and the risk of more closed platforms
Miguel Castro The arrival of the impact producer
Luke O'Neil The end is already here
Damon Krukowski Reviving the alt-weekly soul
Renée Kaplan The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)
Rachel Schallom Better design helps differentiate opinion and news
Taylor Lorenz Social and media will split
Laura E. Davis Writing answers before you know the question
Alice Antheaume Are you fluent in AI?
Errin Haines At the ballot, it’s time to count black women
Sara M. Watson Feeds will open up to new user-determined filters
Edward Roussel Eyes, ears, and brains
Zizi Papacharissi Women come back
Mike Caulfield Refactoring media literacy for the networked age
Tamar Charney We get serious about algorithms
Richard J. Tofel The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention
Nushin Rashidian Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives
Kinsey Wilson Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up
Ruth Palmer Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities
Alan Soon The rise of start of psychographic, micro-targeted media
Kyle Ellis Let’s build our way out of this
Lucas Graves From algorithms to institutions
Pete Brown Push alerts, personalized
Jessica Parker Gilbert Design connects storytelling and strategy
Pablo Boczkowski The rise of skeptical reading
Marcela Donini and Thiago Herdy Collaboration is the way forward for Brazilian journalism
Joanne Lipman Journalists inventing revenue streams
Jim Brady With the people, not just of the people
Mary Walter-Brown Show a little vulnerability
Umbreen Bhatti The trust problem isn’t new
Nicholas Diakopoulos Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity
Susie Banikarim R.I.P. Pivot to Video (2017–2017)
Eric Ulken The year local publishers get smart(er) about change
Monika Bauerlein The firehose of falsehood
Monique Judge Letting black women tell their own stories
P. Kim Bui The reckoning is only beginning
Imaeyen Ibanga Longform video leads the way
Amie Ferris-Rotman More female reporters abroad (please)
Kristen Muller The year of the voter
David Skok Finding an information-life balance
Vanessa K. DeLuca Women’s voices take center stage
Jennifer Choi Standing up for us and for each other
An Xiao Mina Memes and visuals come to the fore
Hossein Derakhshan Television has won
Mariana Moura Santos Think local, act global
Sydette Harry Listen to your corner and watch for the hook
Sam Sanders Shine the light on ourselves
Nikki Usher The year of The Washington Post
Matt DeRienzo A recession, then a collapse
Borja Echevarría TV goes digital, digital goes TV
Dannagal G. Young Stop covering politics as a game
Jared Newman Venture funding and digital news don’t mix
Feli Sánchez The year for guerrilla user research
Juliette De Maeyer A responsible press criticism
Kawandeep Virdee Zines had it right all along
Dan Shanoff You down with OTT? (Yeah, DTC)
Ernst-Jan Pfauth Publishing less to give readers more
Rodney Gibbs Tech workers turn to journalism
Raney Aronson-Rath Transparency is the antidote to fake news
Andrew Ramsammy The year ownership mattered
Doris Truong Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes
Charo Henríquez Training is an investment, not an expense
Will Sommer The year local media gets conservative
Francesco Marconi The year of machine-to-machine journalism
Felix Salmon Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin
Rubina Madan Fillion Unlocking the potential of AI
Millie Tran and Stine Bauer Dahlberg (Hint: It’s about your brand)
Emily Goligoski Looking beyond news for inspiration
Caitlin Thompson Podcasting models mature and diversify
Claire Wardle Disinformation gets worse
Amy King Let’s amplify visual voice
Aron Pilhofer We can’t leave the business to the business side any more
Jim Moroney Newspapers have to be good enough for readers to pay for
Mary Meehan Real lives are at stake in rural areas
Joyce Barnathan It will be harder to bury the news
S. Mitra Kalita The arc of news and audience
Emma Carew Grovum Newsroom culture becomes a priority
Tim Carmody Watch out for Spotify
Matt Carlson Attacks on the press will get worse
Sally Lehrman Trust comes first
Heather Bryant Building the ecosystems for collaboration
Matt Boggie The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea
Cristina Wilson The year of the Instagram Story
Tracie Powell The muting of underserved voices
Jamie Mottram From pageviews to t-shirts
Mariano Blejman News games rule
José Zamora Revenue-first journalism
Rachel Davis Mersey AI, with real smarts
Eric Nuzum Beyond the narrative arc
Raju Narisetti Mirror, mirror on the wall
Carlos Martínez de la Serna The new journalism commons
Lam Thuy Vo Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest
Amy Webb Listen to weak signals
Federica Cherubini The rise of bridge roles in news organizations
Craig Newmark Working together toward sustainable solutions
Michelle Ferrier The year of the great reckoning
Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer Skepticism and narcissism
Cory Haik Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact
Christopher Meighan Passive partnership is in the rearview
Pia Frey Address users as individuals
Tanya Cordrey Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention
Trushar Barot The Jio-fication of India
Ståle Grut Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks
Lanre Akinola Making noise is not a strategy
Bill Keller A growing turn to philanthropy
Vivian Schiller Pivot to tomorrow
Corey Ford The empire strikes back
Manoush Zomorodi Self-help as a publishing strategy
Julia B. Chan Looking for loyalty in all the right places
Helen Havlak Keywords, not publishers, power the world’s biggest feeds
Sarah Marshall Loyalty as the key performance indicator
Corey Johnson The pro-fact resistance
Justin Kosslyn The year journalists become digital security experts
Basile Simon We need better career paths for news nerds
Matt Thompson Here come the attention managers
Jassim Ahmad Thriving on change
Elizabeth Jensen Show your work
Yvonne Leow The rise of video messaging
Marie Gilot No assholes allowed
Mandy Velez texting is lit rn, fam
Molly de Aguiar Good journalism won’t be enough
Hannah Cassius The year of the echo-chamber escapists
Mira Lowe The year of the local watchdog
Alastair Coote The year of self-improvement
Julia Beizer A longer view on the pivot
Andrew Haeg The year journalists become relationship builders
