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