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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Joanne McNeil Gatekeeping the gatekeepers
Corey Ford The empire strikes back
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Rick Berke Value is the watchword
Jessica Parker Gilbert Design connects storytelling and strategy
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Alfred Hermida Going beyond mobile-first
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Felix Salmon Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin
Jared Newman Venture funding and digital news don’t mix
Steve Grove The midterms are an opportunity
Rubina Madan Fillion Unlocking the potential of AI
Matt Boggie The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea
Dan Shanoff You down with OTT? (Yeah, DTC)
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Will Sommer The year local media gets conservative
Manoush Zomorodi Self-help as a publishing strategy
Pete Brown Push alerts, personalized
Sara M. Watson Feeds will open up to new user-determined filters
Rachel Schallom Better design helps differentiate opinion and news
Elizabeth Jensen Show your work
Tracie Powell The muting of underserved voices
Emily Goligoski Looking beyond news for inspiration
Joyce Barnathan It will be harder to bury the news
Andrew Haeg The year journalists become relationship builders
Jim Moroney Newspapers have to be good enough for readers to pay for
Brian Lam Sketchy ethics around product reviews
Gordon Crovitz Serving readers over advertisers
Feli Sánchez The year for guerrilla user research
Cindy Royal Your journalism curriculum is obsolete
Monique Judge Letting black women tell their own stories
Raney Aronson-Rath Transparency is the antidote to fake news
Amy King Let’s amplify visual voice
Mike Caulfield Refactoring media literacy for the networked age
Nik Usher The year of The Washington Post
Frédéric Filloux External forces
Kinsey Wilson Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up
Lam Thuy Vo Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Seeking trust in fragmented spaces
Sarah Marshall Loyalty as the key performance indicator
Caitlin Thompson Podcasting models mature and diversify
Susie Banikarim R.I.P. Pivot to Video (2017–2017)
Carlos Martínez de la Serna The new journalism commons
Nushin Rashidian Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives
Monika Bauerlein The firehose of falsehood
Juleyka Lantigua Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time
Niketa Patel Live journalism comes of age
C.W. Anderson The social media apocalypse
Jamie Mottram From pageviews to t-shirts
Ray Soto VR reaches the next level
Amy Webb Listen to weak signals
Hossein Derakhshan Television has won
Ståle Grut Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks
Francesco Marconi The year of machine-to-machine journalism
Laura E. Davis Writing answers before you know the question
Adam Thomas Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor
Bill Keller A growing turn to philanthropy
Nicholas Diakopoulos Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity
Mariano Blejman News games rule
Charo Henríquez Training is an investment, not an expense
Dannagal G. Young Stop covering politics as a game
Taylor Lorenz Social and media will split
Marie Gilot No assholes allowed
Andrew Losowsky The year of resilience
Ruth Palmer Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities
Claire Wardle Disinformation gets worse
Mi-Ai Parrish Blockchain and trust
Tamar Charney We get serious about algorithms
Kristen Muller The year of the voter
Joanne Lipman Journalists inventing revenue streams
Sam Ford The year of investing in processes
Eric Nuzum Beyond the narrative arc
Mandy Velez texting is lit rn, fam
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Lanre Akinola Making noise is not a strategy
Justin Kosslyn The year journalists become digital security experts
Michelle Ferrier The year of the great reckoning
Kim Fox Audience teams diversify their approach
Trushar Barot The Jio-fication of India
Matt DeRienzo A recession, then a collapse
Tim Carmody Watch out for Spotify
Alexios Mantzarlis Moving fake news research out of the lab
Mario García Storytelling finally adapts to mobile
Zizi Papacharissi Women come back
P. Kim Bui The reckoning is only beginning
Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán The editorial meeting of the future
Doris Truong Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes
Hannah Cassius The year of the echo-chamber escapists
Emma Carew Grovum Newsroom culture becomes a priority
Christopher Meighan Passive partnership is in the rearview
Tanzina Vega It’s time for media companies to #PassTheMic
Imaeyen Ibanga Longform video leads the way
AX Mina Memes and visuals come to the fore
Debra Adams Simmons And a woman shall lead them
Mira Lowe The year of the local watchdog
Julia B. Chan Looking for loyalty in all the right places
Amie Ferris-Rotman More female reporters abroad (please)
Basile Simon We need better career paths for news nerds
Matt Carlson Attacks on the press will get worse
Mary Meehan Real lives are at stake in rural areas
Errin Haines At the ballot, it’s time to count black women
Mary Walter-Brown Show a little vulnerability
Craig Newmark Working together toward sustainable solutions
Alice Antheaume Are you fluent in AI?
Rodney Benson Better, less read, and less trusted
Cristina Wilson The year of the Instagram Story
Dheerja Kaur Fun with subscription products
Heather Bryant Building the ecosystems for collaboration
José Zamora Revenue-first journalism
Edward Roussel Eyes, ears, and brains
Carrie Brown Transparency finally takes off
Jassim Ahmad Thriving on change
Daniel Trielli The rich get richer, the poor scramble
Yvonne Leow The rise of video messaging
Pablo Boczkowski The rise of skeptical reading
Richard Tofel The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention
Kyle Ellis Let’s build our way out of this
Damon Krukowski Reviving the alt-weekly soul
Luke O'Neil The end is already here
Eric Ulken The year local publishers get smart(er) about change
Helen Havlak Keywords, not publishers, power the world’s biggest feeds
Miguel Castro The arrival of the impact producer
Kawandeep Virdee Zines had it right all along
Julia Beizer A longer view on the pivot
Matt Thompson Here come the attention managers