Zines had it right all along

“Zines have an enormous variety. They’re experimental and diverse. This gives them a freshness and surprise. They’re anti-formalist. They’re relatable.”

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Cristina Wilson   The year of the Instagram Story

Matt DeRienzo   A recession, then a collapse

Marcela Donini and Thiago Herdy   Collaboration is the way forward for Brazilian journalism

Zizi Papacharissi   Women come back

Mariana Moura Santos   Think local, act global

Raju Narisetti   Mirror, mirror on the wall

Julia Beizer   A longer view on the pivot

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen   The Snapchat scenario and the risk of more closed platforms

Marie Gilot   No assholes allowed

Mariano Blejman   News games rule

Pablo Boczkowski   The rise of skeptical reading

Susie Banikarim   R.I.P. Pivot to Video (2017–2017)

Mary Meehan   Real lives are at stake in rural areas

Bill Keller   A growing turn to philanthropy

Claire Wardle   Disinformation gets worse

Almar Latour   Conquering calm

Sydette Harry   Listen to your corner and watch for the hook

Craig Newmark   Working together toward sustainable solutions

José Zamora   Revenue-first journalism

Nicholas Diakopoulos   Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity

Heather Bryant   Building the ecosystems for collaboration

Nancy Watzman   Know thy TV

Matt Thompson   Here come the attention managers

Raney Aronson-Rath   Transparency is the antidote to fake news

Nathalie Malinarich   Peak push

Will Sommer   The year local media gets conservative

Hossein Derakhshan   Television has won

John Keefe   Scooped by AI

Jennifer Choi   Standing up for us and for each other

Daniel Trielli   The rich get richer, the poor scramble

Emily Goligoski   Looking beyond news for inspiration

Errin Haines   At the ballot, it’s time to count black women

Alfred Hermida   Going beyond mobile-first

Tanya Cordrey   Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention

S. Mitra Kalita   The arc of news and audience

Jessica Parker Gilbert   Design connects storytelling and strategy

Kinsey Wilson   Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up

C.W. Anderson   The social media apocalypse

Corey Ford   The empire strikes back

Jim Brady   With the people, not just of the people

Caitria O'Neill   The new court of public opinion

Eric Nuzum   Beyond the narrative arc

Vivian Schiller   Pivot to tomorrow

Juleyka Lantigua   Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time

Gordon Crovitz   Serving readers over advertisers

Manoush Zomorodi   Self-help as a publishing strategy

Basile Simon   We need better career paths for news nerds

Justin Kosslyn   The year journalists become digital security experts

Usha Sahay   Wallets get opened

Renée Kaplan   The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)

Sue Schardt   Jump the niche

Helen Havlak   Keywords, not publishers, power the world’s biggest feeds

Brian Lam   Sketchy ethics around product reviews

Matt Boggie   The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea

Rick Berke   Value is the watchword

Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer   Skepticism and narcissism

Cory Haik   Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact

Tamar Charney   We get serious about algorithms

Kyle Ellis   Let’s build our way out of this

Borja Echevarría   TV goes digital, digital goes TV

Caitlin Thompson   Podcasting models mature and diversify

Nicholas Quah   Stop talking trash about young people

Mary Walter-Brown   Show a little vulnerability

Lam Thuy Vo   Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest

Emma Carew Grovum   Newsroom culture becomes a priority

Aron Pilhofer   We can’t leave the business to the business side any more

Monika Bauerlein   The firehose of falsehood

Jake Levine   The return to now

Mike Caulfield   Refactoring media literacy for the networked age

Andrew Haeg   The year journalists become relationship builders

Felix Salmon   Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin

Damon Krukowski   Reviving the alt-weekly soul

Hannah Cassius   The year of the echo-chamber escapists

Yvonne Leow   The rise of video messaging

Imaeyen Ibanga   Longform video leads the way

Joanne McNeil   Gatekeeping the gatekeepers

Jacqui Cheng   Retailers move into content

Monique Judge   Letting black women tell their own stories

Sally Lehrman   Trust comes first

Umbreen Bhatti   The trust problem isn’t new

Kelsey Proud   No, no, no

Christopher Meighan   Passive partnership is in the rearview

Rodney Benson   Better, less read, and less trusted

Dannagal G. Young   Stop covering politics as a game

David Skok   Finding an information-life balance

Kristen Muller   The year of the voter

Juliette De Maeyer   A responsible press criticism

Nushin Rashidian   Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives

Tracie Powell   The muting of underserved voices

Laura E. Davis   Writing answers before you know the question

Vanessa K. DeLuca   Women’s voices take center stage

Trushar Barot   The Jio-fication of India

Sam Ford   The year of investing in processes

Debra Adams Simmons   And a woman shall lead them

Federica Cherubini   The rise of bridge roles in news organizations

Matt Carlson   Attacks on the press will get worse

Julia B. Chan   Looking for loyalty in all the right places

Rodney Gibbs   Tech workers turn to journalism

Mi-Ai Parrish   Blockchain and trust

Jarrod Dicker   Honesty in advertising

Adam Thomas   Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor

Burt Herman   Things get real

Evie Nagy   Pivot to mobile video frustration

Ariana Tobin   Too tired to tap

Taylor Lorenz   Social and media will split

Alastair Coote   The year of self-improvement

Elizabeth Jensen   Show your work

Edward Roussel   Eyes, ears, and brains

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Seeking trust in fragmented spaces

Ernst-Jan Pfauth   Publishing less to give readers more

Rachel Davis Mersey   AI, with real smarts

Sarah Marshall   Loyalty as the key performance indicator

Dheerja Kaur   Fun with subscription products

Steve Grove   The midterms are an opportunity

Pia Frey   Address users as individuals

Ruth Palmer   Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities

Ray Soto   VR reaches the next level

Frédéric Filloux   External forces

Francesco Marconi   The year of machine-to-machine journalism

Rubina Madan Fillion   Unlocking the potential of AI

Richard Tofel   The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention

Joanne Lipman   Journalists inventing revenue streams

Tanzina Vega   It’s time for media companies to #PassTheMic

Amy King   Let’s amplify visual voice

Jesse Holcomb   Information disorder, coming to a congressional district near you

Miguel Castro   The arrival of the impact producer

Jim Moroney   Newspapers have to be good enough for readers to pay for

Mandy Velez   texting is lit rn, fam

Alexios Mantzarlis   Moving fake news research out of the lab

Kim Fox   Audience teams diversify their approach

Carrie Brown-Smith   Transparency finally takes off

Rachel Schallom   Better design helps differentiate opinion and news

Kathleen McElroy   Building a news video experience native to mobile

Corey Johnson   The pro-fact resistance

Alice Antheaume   Are you fluent in AI?

Sara M. Watson   Feeds will open up to new user-determined filters

Feli Sánchez   The year for guerrilla user research

Nikki Usher   The year of The Washington Post

Amie Ferris-Rotman   More female reporters abroad (please)

Andrew Losowsky   The year of resilience

Niketa Patel   Live journalism comes of age

Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán   The editorial meeting of the future

Jared Newman   Venture funding and digital news don’t mix

Mario García   Storytelling finally adapts to mobile

Millie Tran and Stine Bauer Dahlberg   (Hint: It’s about your brand)

Michelle Garcia   Navigating journalistic transparency

Pete Brown   Push alerts, personalized

Michelle Ferrier   The year of the great reckoning

Cindy Royal   Your journalism curriculum is obsolete

Jennifer Coogan   The future is female

Kawandeep Virdee   Zines had it right all along

Joyce Barnathan   It will be harder to bury the news

Doris Truong   Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes

P. Kim Bui   The reckoning is only beginning

Luke O'Neil   The end is already here

Amy Webb   Listen to weak signals

Molly de Aguiar   Good journalism won’t be enough

Jassim Ahmad   Thriving on change

Mira Lowe   The year of the local watchdog

Carlos Martínez de la Serna   The new journalism commons

Paul Ford   Go global

Sam Sanders   Shine the light on ourselves

Jamie Mottram   From pageviews to t-shirts

Charo Henríquez   Training is an investment, not an expense

Dan Shanoff   You down with OTT? (Yeah, DTC)

Neha Gandhi   Filler killers

Michael Kuntz   The only pivot that might work

Ståle Grut   Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks

Lucas Graves   From algorithms to institutions

Andrew Ramsammy   The year ownership mattered

Lanre Akinola   Making noise is not a strategy

An Xiao Mina   Memes and visuals come to the fore

Alan Soon   The rise of start of psychographic, micro-targeted media

Dan Newman   A return to trust

Eric Ulken   The year local publishers get smart(er) about change

Tim Carmody   Watch out for Spotify