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