In the aftermath of the scandals of 2017, women’s voices will take center stage in 2018.
More room will be made to discuss topics such as women’s political aspirations, leadership abilities, feminism and intersectionality, reproductive rights, fight for equal pay and battles against sexual harassment, with less bias and more nuance.
Vanessa K. DeLuca is editor-in-chief of Essence.
Taylor Lorenz Social and media will split
Juleyka Lantigua-Williams Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time
Kim Fox Audience teams diversify their approach
José Zamora Revenue-first journalism
Craig Newmark Working together toward sustainable solutions
Jesse Holcomb Information disorder, coming to a congressional district near you
Vanessa K. DeLuca Women’s voices take center stage
Ernst-Jan Pfauth Publishing less to give readers more
Jacqui Cheng Retailers move into content
Heather Bryant Building the ecosystems for collaboration
Alfred Hermida Going beyond mobile-first
Lanre Akinola Making noise is not a strategy
L. Gordon Crovitz Serving readers over advertisers
Felix Salmon Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin
Tanya Cordrey Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention
Umbreen Bhatti The trust problem isn’t new
Mary Walter-Brown Show a little vulnerability
Dan Shanoff You down with OTT? (Yeah, DTC)
Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer Skepticism and narcissism
Carrie Brown-Smith Transparency finally takes off
Manoush Zomorodi Self-help as a publishing strategy
Jennifer Coogan The future is female
Aron Pilhofer We can’t leave the business to the business side any more
Jessica Parker Gilbert Design connects storytelling and strategy
Rachel Schallom Better design helps differentiate opinion and news
Rodney Gibbs Tech workers turn to journalism
Feli Sánchez The year for guerrilla user research
Zizi Papacharissi Women come back
Joanne Lipman Journalists inventing revenue streams
Kyle Ellis Let’s build our way out of this
Borja Echevarría TV goes digital, digital goes TV
Corey Johnson The pro-fact resistance
P. Kim Bui The reckoning is only beginning
Doris Truong Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes
Sarah Marshall Loyalty as the key performance indicator
Claire Wardle Disinformation gets worse
Rodney Benson Better, less read, and less trusted
Andrew Ramsammy The year ownership mattered
Luke O'Neil The end is already here
Caitria O'Neill The new court of public opinion
Kristen Muller The year of the voter
Matt DeRienzo A recession, then a collapse
Emily Goligoski Looking beyond news for inspiration
Jennifer Choi Standing up for us and for each other
Mandy Velez texting is lit rn, fam
Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán The editorial meeting of the future
Julia Beizer A longer view on the pivot
Justin Kosslyn The year journalists become digital security experts
Nikki Usher The year of The Washington Post
Michelle Garcia Navigating journalistic transparency
Lucas Graves From algorithms to institutions
Charo Henríquez Training is an investment, not an expense
Millie Tran and Stine Bauer Dahlberg (Hint: It’s about your brand)
Federica Cherubini The rise of bridge roles in news organizations
Alexios Mantzarlis Moving fake news research out of the lab
Renée Kaplan The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)
Basile Simon We need better career paths for news nerds
Alice Antheaume Are you fluent in AI?
Tim Carmody Watch out for Spotify
Nushin Rashidian Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives
Errin Haines At the ballot, it’s time to count black women
Nicholas Quah Stop talking trash about young people
Alan Soon The rise of start of psychographic, micro-targeted media
Rubina Madan Fillion Unlocking the potential of AI
Susie Banikarim R.I.P. Pivot to Video (2017–2017)
Edward Roussel Eyes, ears, and brains
Rick Berke Value is the watchword
An Xiao Mina Memes and visuals come to the fore
Elizabeth Jensen Show your work
Sam Sanders Shine the light on ourselves
Corey Ford The empire strikes back
Marcela Donini and Thiago Herdy Collaboration is the way forward for Brazilian journalism
Daniel Trielli The rich get richer, the poor scramble
Tanzina Vega It’s time for media companies to #PassTheMic
Imaeyen Ibanga Longform video leads the way
Brian Lam Sketchy ethics around product reviews
Kinsey Wilson Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up
Monique Judge Letting black women tell their own stories
Miguel Castro The arrival of the impact producer
Michael Kuntz The only pivot that might work
Dheerja Kaur Fun with subscription products
Tamar Charney We get serious about algorithms
Kawandeep Virdee Zines had it right all along
Tracie Powell The muting of underserved voices
Richard J. Tofel The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention
Hannah Cassius The year of the echo-chamber escapists
Eric Nuzum Beyond the narrative arc
Joanne McNeil Gatekeeping the gatekeepers
Carlos Martínez de la Serna The new journalism commons
Trushar Barot The Jio-fication of India
Matt Thompson Here come the attention managers
Marie Gilot No assholes allowed
Steve Grove The midterms are an opportunity
Bill Keller A growing turn to philanthropy
Jarrod Dicker Honesty in advertising
Jim Brady With the people, not just of the people
Mike Caulfield Refactoring media literacy for the networked age
Mary Meehan Real lives are at stake in rural areas
Yvonne Leow The rise of video messaging
Debra Adams Simmons And a woman shall lead them
Mira Lowe The year of the local watchdog
Jassim Ahmad Thriving on change
Amy Webb Listen to weak signals
Ruth Palmer Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities
Matt Carlson Attacks on the press will get worse
Sydette Harry Listen to your corner and watch for the hook
Evie Nagy Pivot to mobile video frustration
Rachel Davis Mersey AI, with real smarts
Vivian Schiller Pivot to tomorrow
Niketa Patel Live journalism comes of age
Joyce Barnathan It will be harder to bury the news
Eric Ulken The year local publishers get smart(er) about change
Cindy Royal Your journalism curriculum is obsolete
Ståle Grut Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks
Hossein Derakhshan Television has won
Cristina Wilson The year of the Instagram Story
Pete Brown Push alerts, personalized
Frédéric Filloux External forces
Jim Moroney Newspapers have to be good enough for readers to pay for
Christopher Meighan Passive partnership is in the rearview
Monika Bauerlein The firehose of falsehood
Kathleen McElroy Building a news video experience native to mobile
Mi-Ai Parrish Blockchain and trust
Andrew Haeg The year journalists become relationship builders
Andrew Losowsky The year of resilience
Pia Frey Address users as individuals
Francesco Marconi The year of machine-to-machine journalism
C.W. Anderson The social media apocalypse
Emma Carew Grovum Newsroom culture becomes a priority
Jamie Mottram From pageviews to t-shirts
Jared Newman Venture funding and digital news don’t mix
Juliette De Maeyer A responsible press criticism
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen The Snapchat scenario and the risk of more closed platforms
Laura E. Davis Writing answers before you know the question
Raney Aronson-Rath Transparency is the antidote to fake news
Sam Ford The year of investing in processes
Lam Thuy Vo Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest
Alastair Coote The year of self-improvement
Michelle Ferrier The year of the great reckoning
Adam Thomas Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor
Will Sommer The year local media gets conservative
Amy King Let’s amplify visual voice
Helen Havlak Keywords, not publishers, power the world’s biggest feeds
Cory Haik Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact
Mariana Moura Santos Think local, act global
Pablo Boczkowski The rise of skeptical reading
David Skok Finding an information-life balance
Raju Narisetti Mirror, mirror on the wall
Sara M. Watson Feeds will open up to new user-determined filters
Julia B. Chan Looking for loyalty in all the right places
Matt Boggie The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea
Damon Krukowski Reviving the alt-weekly soul
Caitlin Thompson Podcasting models mature and diversify
Mariano Blejman News games rule
Dannagal G. Young Stop covering politics as a game
Mario García Storytelling finally adapts to mobile
S. Mitra Kalita The arc of news and audience
Nicholas Diakopoulos Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity
Amie Ferris-Rotman More female reporters abroad (please)
