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