Think local, act global

“We will continue to work in collaboration across borders in Latin America, doing fact-checking over social networks — more and more on WhatsApp, which is one of the region’s main sources for information consumption and sharing.”

In Chicas Poderosas, we’ve been exploring what innovations are needed for the journalism of today and of tomorrow. We’re finishing 2017 with a lot of investigative journalism focused on mining the social web in search of trends to then fact-check. Making governments accountable and the public informed — Chicas Poderosas has found that to be one of the most needed efforts, especially when done in collaboration with local journalism. 

For 2018, we will continue to work in collaboration across borders in Latin America, doing fact-checking over social networks — more and more on WhatsApp, which is one of the region’s main sources for information consumption and sharing, which makes checking if that information is true important. We will be on top of elections and campaigns so we don’t let the same mistakes happen again, and we will be work to make sure the campaigns run as transparently as possible. 

So the main ingredients in my opinion for the journalism of 2018 will be: collaborations, fact-checking (especially over social networks), and hyperlocal news in the context of the global reality. As we do in Chicas Poderosas: Think local and act global!

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Brian Lam   Sketchy ethics around product reviews

Amy Webb   Listen to weak signals

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

Vivian Schiller   Pivot to tomorrow

Mira Lowe   The year of the local watchdog

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

Sue Schardt   Jump the niche

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Kyle Ellis   Let’s build our way out of this

Kawandeep Virdee   Zines had it right all along

Claire Wardle   Disinformation gets worse

Almar Latour   Conquering calm

Michelle Garcia   Navigating journalistic transparency

Burt Herman   Things get real

Michael Kuntz   The only pivot that might work

Kristen Muller   The year of the voter

An Xiao Mina   Memes and visuals come to the fore

Zizi Papacharissi   Women come back

Lanre Akinola   Making noise is not a strategy

Alastair Coote   The year of self-improvement

Ernst-Jan Pfauth   Publishing less to give readers more

Cory Haik   Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact

Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer   Skepticism and narcissism

Marie Gilot   No assholes allowed

Nikki Usher   The year of The Washington Post

Raney Aronson-Rath   Transparency is the antidote to fake news

Elizabeth Jensen   Show your work

Monique Judge   Letting black women tell their own stories

Mariano Blejman   News games rule

Pete Brown   Push alerts, personalized

Alexios Mantzarlis   Moving fake news research out of the lab

Felix Salmon   Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin

Corey Ford   The empire strikes back

Jassim Ahmad   Thriving on change

Mike Caulfield   Refactoring media literacy for the networked age

Craig Newmark   Working together toward sustainable solutions

Trushar Barot   The Jio-fication of India

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

Raju Narisetti   Mirror, mirror on the wall

Jim Brady   With the people, not just of the people

Kathleen McElroy   Building a news video experience native to mobile

Richard Tofel   The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention

Debra Adams Simmons   And a woman shall lead them

Usha Sahay   Wallets get opened

Matt Boggie   The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea

Lucas Graves   From algorithms to institutions

Ståle Grut   Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks

Nicholas Diakopoulos   Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity

Paul Ford   Go global

Ray Soto   VR reaches the next level

Jennifer Coogan   The future is female

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

Rachel Schallom   Better design helps differentiate opinion and news

Molly de Aguiar   Good journalism won’t be enough

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

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

Amy King   Let’s amplify visual voice

Lam Thuy Vo   Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest

Matt DeRienzo   A recession, then a collapse

Daniel Trielli   The rich get richer, the poor scramble

Heather Bryant   Building the ecosystems for collaboration

Adam Thomas   Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor

Evie Nagy   Pivot to mobile video frustration

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

Federica Cherubini   The rise of bridge roles in news organizations

Hossein Derakhshan   Television has won

Sally Lehrman   Trust comes first

Pia Frey   Address users as individuals

Sarah Marshall   Loyalty as the key performance indicator

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

Francesco Marconi   The year of machine-to-machine journalism

Amie Ferris-Rotman   More female reporters abroad (please)

Umbreen Bhatti   The trust problem isn’t new

Ariana Tobin   Too tired to tap

Jessica Parker Gilbert   Design connects storytelling and strategy

Eric Nuzum   Beyond the narrative arc

John Keefe   Scooped by AI

Frédéric Filloux   External forces

Andrew Losowsky   The year of resilience

Ruth Palmer   Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities

Jared Newman   Venture funding and digital news don’t mix

Jarrod Dicker   Honesty in advertising

Mi-Ai Parrish   Blockchain and trust

Rodney Benson   Better, less read, and less trusted

Borja Echevarría   TV goes digital, digital goes TV

Emma Carew Grovum   Newsroom culture becomes a priority

David Skok   Finding an information-life balance

Yvonne Leow   The rise of video messaging

Vanessa K. DeLuca   Women’s voices take center stage

Rubina Madan Fillion   Unlocking the potential of AI

Tanya Cordrey   Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention

Juleyka Lantigua   Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time

Tamar Charney   We get serious about algorithms

Cindy Royal   Your journalism curriculum is obsolete

Nicholas Quah   Stop talking trash about young people

Steve Grove   The midterms are an opportunity

Edward Roussel   Eyes, ears, and brains

Dheerja Kaur   Fun with subscription products

Mario García   Storytelling finally adapts to mobile

Bill Keller   A growing turn to philanthropy

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

C.W. Anderson   The social media apocalypse

Carrie Brown-Smith   Transparency finally takes off

Jennifer Choi   Standing up for us and for each other

Rodney Gibbs   Tech workers turn to journalism

Joyce Barnathan   It will be harder to bury the news

Emily Goligoski   Looking beyond news for inspiration

Miguel Castro   The arrival of the impact producer

Joanne Lipman   Journalists inventing revenue streams

Tim Carmody   Watch out for Spotify

Jacqui Cheng   Retailers move into content

Justin Kosslyn   The year journalists become digital security experts

Julia Beizer   A longer view on the pivot

Luke O'Neil   The end is already here

Hannah Cassius   The year of the echo-chamber escapists

Sydette Harry   Listen to your corner and watch for the hook

Pablo Boczkowski   The rise of skeptical reading

Imaeyen Ibanga   Longform video leads the way

Andrew Ramsammy   The year ownership mattered

Tracie Powell   The muting of underserved voices

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

Michelle Ferrier   The year of the great reckoning

Dan Newman   A return to trust

Caitlin Thompson   Podcasting models mature and diversify

S. Mitra Kalita   The arc of news and audience

Doris Truong   Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes

Alfred Hermida   Going beyond mobile-first

Gordon Crovitz   Serving readers over advertisers

Mariana Moura Santos   Think local, act global

Jake Levine   The return to now

Monika Bauerlein   The firehose of falsehood

Charo Henríquez   Training is an investment, not an expense

Damon Krukowski   Reviving the alt-weekly soul

Rachel Davis Mersey   AI, with real smarts

José Zamora   Revenue-first journalism

Mandy Velez   texting is lit rn, fam

Manoush Zomorodi   Self-help as a publishing strategy

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Seeking trust in fragmented spaces

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

Carlos Martínez de la Serna   The new journalism commons

Laura E. Davis   Writing answers before you know the question

Nathalie Malinarich   Peak push

Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán   The editorial meeting of the future

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

Juliette De Maeyer   A responsible press criticism

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

Basile Simon   We need better career paths for news nerds

Will Sommer   The year local media gets conservative

Mary Meehan   Real lives are at stake in rural areas

Renée Kaplan   The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)

Christopher Meighan   Passive partnership is in the rearview

Matt Carlson   Attacks on the press will get worse

Alice Antheaume   Are you fluent in AI?

Feli Sánchez   The year for guerrilla user research

Kinsey Wilson   Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up

Matt Thompson   Here come the attention managers

Caitria O'Neill   The new court of public opinion

Niketa Patel   Live journalism comes of age

Andrew Haeg   The year journalists become relationship builders

Neha Gandhi   Filler killers

Dannagal G. Young   Stop covering politics as a game

Nushin Rashidian   Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives

Sam Sanders   Shine the light on ourselves

P. Kim Bui   The reckoning is only beginning

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

Kelsey Proud   No, no, no

Nancy Watzman   Know thy TV

Taylor Lorenz   Social and media will split

Corey Johnson   The pro-fact resistance

Mary Walter-Brown   Show a little vulnerability

Jamie Mottram   From pageviews to t-shirts

Joanne McNeil   Gatekeeping the gatekeepers