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