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