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Cindy Royal Your journalism curriculum is obsolete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