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