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.”

Kawandeep Virdee works on product at Medium.

Corey Ford   The empire strikes back

Michelle Garcia   Navigating journalistic transparency

Nancy Watzman   Know thy TV

Amie Ferris-Rotman   More female reporters abroad (please)

Rachel Schallom   Better design helps differentiate opinion and news

Alastair Coote   The year of self-improvement

Eric Nuzum   Beyond the narrative arc

Imaeyen Ibanga   Longform video leads the way

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

Kristen Muller   The year of the voter

Carlos Martínez de la Serna   The new journalism commons

Kyle Ellis   Let’s build our way out of this

Manoush Zomorodi   Self-help as a publishing strategy

Matt Carlson   Attacks on the press will get worse

Matt Boggie   The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea

Michelle Ferrier   The year of the great reckoning

Nicholas Diakopoulos   Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity

Zizi Papacharissi   Women come back

Pete Brown   Push alerts, personalized

Matt Thompson   Here come the attention managers

Cristina Wilson   The year of the Instagram Story

Dheerja Kaur   Fun with subscription products

Mi-Ai Parrish   Blockchain and trust

Taylor Lorenz   Social and media will split

Daniel Trielli   The rich get richer, the poor scramble

Paul Ford   Go global

Basile Simon   We need better career paths for news nerds

Matt DeRienzo   A recession, then a collapse

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

Jared Newman   Venture funding and digital news don’t mix

Jim Brady   With the people, not just of the people

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

Caitria O'Neill   The new court of public opinion

Kathleen McElroy   Building a news video experience native to mobile

Tamar Charney   We get serious about algorithms

Tim Carmody   Watch out for Spotify

Mike Caulfield   Refactoring media literacy for the networked age

Nikki Usher   The year of The Washington Post

Feli Sánchez   The year for guerrilla user research

Lucas Graves   From algorithms to institutions

Neha Gandhi   Filler killers

Charo Henríquez   Training is an investment, not an expense

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

Federica Cherubini   The rise of bridge roles in news organizations

Alice Antheaume   Are you fluent in AI?

Luke O'Neil   The end is already here

Vanessa K. DeLuca   Women’s voices take center stage

Alfred Hermida   Going beyond mobile-first

Raju Narisetti   Mirror, mirror on the wall

Dannagal G. Young   Stop covering politics as a game

Amy King   Let’s amplify visual voice

Amy Webb   Listen to weak signals

Nushin Rashidian   Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives

Sydette Harry   Listen to your corner and watch for the hook

Mario García   Storytelling finally adapts to mobile

Gordon Crovitz   Serving readers over advertisers

Jennifer Choi   Standing up for us and for each other

José Zamora   Revenue-first journalism

Rodney Benson   Better, less read, and less trusted

Rodney Gibbs   Tech workers turn to journalism

Mary Meehan   Real lives are at stake in rural areas

Sally Lehrman   Trust comes first

Mandy Velez   texting is lit rn, fam

Nicholas Quah   Stop talking trash about young people

Lam Thuy Vo   Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest

Yvonne Leow   The rise of video messaging

C.W. Anderson   The social media apocalypse

Corey Johnson   The pro-fact resistance

Nathalie Malinarich   Peak push

Umbreen Bhatti   The trust problem isn’t new

Marie Gilot   No assholes allowed

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Seeking trust in fragmented spaces

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

Hannah Cassius   The year of the echo-chamber escapists

Bill Keller   A growing turn to philanthropy

Ruth Palmer   Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities

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

Mariano Blejman   News games rule

Michael Kuntz   The only pivot that might work

Craig Newmark   Working together toward sustainable solutions

Raney Aronson-Rath   Transparency is the antidote to fake news

P. Kim Bui   The reckoning is only beginning

Rachel Davis Mersey   AI, with real smarts

Laura E. Davis   Writing answers before you know the question

Monique Judge   Letting black women tell their own stories

Jessica Parker Gilbert   Design connects storytelling and strategy

Hossein Derakhshan   Television has won

Mira Lowe   The year of the local watchdog

Rick Berke   Value is the watchword

Caitlin Thompson   Podcasting models mature and diversify

Andrew Haeg   The year journalists become relationship builders

Joyce Barnathan   It will be harder to bury the news

Cory Haik   Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact

Molly de Aguiar   Good journalism won’t be enough

Carrie Brown-Smith   Transparency finally takes off

Kawandeep Virdee   Zines had it right all along

Alexios Mantzarlis   Moving fake news research out of the lab

Sarah Marshall   Loyalty as the key performance indicator

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

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

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

Borja Echevarría   TV goes digital, digital goes TV

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

Andrew Losowsky   The year of resilience

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

Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán   The editorial meeting of the future

Will Sommer   The year local media gets conservative

Ray Soto   VR reaches the next level

Doris Truong   Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes

Juliette De Maeyer   A responsible press criticism

Jake Levine   The return to now

Lanre Akinola   Making noise is not a strategy

David Skok   Finding an information-life balance

Jassim Ahmad   Thriving on change

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

Rubina Madan Fillion   Unlocking the potential of AI

Jamie Mottram   From pageviews to t-shirts

Frédéric Filloux   External forces

S. Mitra Kalita   The arc of news and audience

Brian Lam   Sketchy ethics around product reviews

Justin Kosslyn   The year journalists become digital security experts

Pablo Boczkowski   The rise of skeptical reading

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

Miguel Castro   The arrival of the impact producer

Francesco Marconi   The year of machine-to-machine journalism

Andrew Ramsammy   The year ownership mattered

Ariana Tobin   Too tired to tap

Jennifer Coogan   The future is female

Monika Bauerlein   The firehose of falsehood

Vivian Schiller   Pivot to tomorrow

Debra Adams Simmons   And a woman shall lead them

Damon Krukowski   Reviving the alt-weekly soul

Niketa Patel   Live journalism comes of age

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

John Keefe   Scooped by AI

Sam Ford   The year of investing in processes

Mary Walter-Brown   Show a little vulnerability

Ståle Grut   Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks

Adam Thomas   Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor

An Xiao Mina   Memes and visuals come to the fore

Cindy Royal   Your journalism curriculum is obsolete

Edward Roussel   Eyes, ears, and brains

Felix Salmon   Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin

Kinsey Wilson   Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up

Renée Kaplan   The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)

Steve Grove   The midterms are an opportunity

Tracie Powell   The muting of underserved voices

Burt Herman   Things get real

Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer   Skepticism and narcissism

Kelsey Proud   No, no, no

Joanne Lipman   Journalists inventing revenue streams

Almar Latour   Conquering calm

Julia Beizer   A longer view on the pivot

Mariana Moura Santos   Think local, act global

Claire Wardle   Disinformation gets worse

Jarrod Dicker   Honesty in advertising

Joanne McNeil   Gatekeeping the gatekeepers

Heather Bryant   Building the ecosystems for collaboration

Ernst-Jan Pfauth   Publishing less to give readers more

Evie Nagy   Pivot to mobile video frustration

Sam Sanders   Shine the light on ourselves

Pia Frey   Address users as individuals

Emily Goligoski   Looking beyond news for inspiration

Usha Sahay   Wallets get opened

Sue Schardt   Jump the niche

Tanya Cordrey   Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention

Juleyka Lantigua   Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time

Jacqui Cheng   Retailers move into content

Richard Tofel   The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention

Kim Fox   Audience teams diversify their approach

Trushar Barot   The Jio-fication of India

Emma Carew Grovum   Newsroom culture becomes a priority

Dan Newman   A return to trust

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

Christopher Meighan   Passive partnership is in the rearview

Elizabeth Jensen   Show your work