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