Marie Gilot is the director of J+ at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
Gordon Crovitz Fighting misinformation requires journalism, not secret algorithms
Jake Shapiro Podcasting gets listener relationship management
Jeff Kofman Speed through technology
Kristen Muller The year we operationalize community engagement
Logan Jaffe You don’t need fancy tools to listen
Barbara Gray Join local libraries on the frontlines of civic engagement
Mira Lowe The year of student-powered journalism
Logan Molyneux and Shannon McGregor Think twice before turning to Twitter
Laura E. Davis Know the context your journalism is operating within
Craig Newmark Formalizing newsrooms’ battle against disinformation
Jeremy Olshan All journalism should be service journalism
Raney Aronson-Rath News deserts will proliferate — but so will new solutions
Monica Drake A renewed focus on misinformation
Tamar Charney From broadcast to bespoke
Simon Galperin Journalism becomes more democratic
Jonas Kaiser Russian bots are just today’s slacktivists
Elizabeth Hansen and Jesse Holcomb Local news initiatives run into a capital shortage
Monique Judge The year to organize, unionize, and fight
Lauren Duca The rise of the journalistic influencer
Kevin D. Grant The free press stands against authoritarians’ attacks on truth
A.J. Bauer A fork in the road for conservative media
Talia Stroud The work of reconnecting starts November 4
Annie Rudd The expanded ambiguity of the news photograph
S. Mitra Kalita The race to 2021
Meg Marco Everything happens somewhere
Sarah Schmalbach Journalist, quantify thyself
Geneva Overholser Death to bothsidesism
Elizabeth Dunbar Frank talk, and then action
Cory Haik We’re already consuming the future of news — now we have to produce it
Alexandra Borchardt Get out of the office and talk to people
Steve Henn The dawning audio web
Dannagal G. Young Let’s disrupt the logic that’s driving Americans apart
Nushin Rashidian Are platforms a bridge or a lifeline?
Whitney Phillips A time to question core beliefs
Sarah Stonbely More people start caring about news inequality
Jennifer Brandel A love letter from the year 2073
Carl Bialik Journalists will try running the whole shop
Francesco Zaffarano TikTok without generational prejudice
Emily Withrow The year we kill the news article
Bill Adair A Nobel Prize, a Brad Pitt film, and a Taylor Swift song
Jasmine McNealy A call for context
Sarah Marshall The year to learn about news moments
Errin Haines Race and gender aren’t a 2020 story — they’re the story
Anthony Nadler Clash of Clans: Election Edition
M. Scott Havens First-party data becomes media’s most important currency
Bill Grueskin Our ethics codes get an overhaul
Seth C. Lewis 20 questions for 2020
Matt DeRienzo Local broadcasters begin to fill the gaps left by newspapers
Colleen Shalby Journalists become media literacy teachers
Sara K. Baranowski A big year for little newspapers
Knight Foundation Five generations of journalists, learning from each other
Alice Antheaume Trade “politics” for “power”
Ståle Grut OSINT journalism goes mainstream
Mary Walter-Brown and Tristan Loper Power to the people (on your audience team)
Richard Tofel A constraint of the reader-revenue model emerges
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen The business we want, not the business we had
Christa Scharfenberg It’s time to make journalism a field that supports and respects women
Mariana Moura Santos The future of journalism is collaborative
Lucas Graves A smarter conversation about how (and why) fact-checking matters
Candis Callison Taking a cue from Indigenous journalists on climate change
Ernie Smith The death of the industry fad
Joe Amditis Collaborative journalism takes its rightful place at the table
John Garrett It’s the best time in a century to start a local news organization
Felix Salmon Spotify launches a news channel
Joshua P. Darr All that campaign cash will make the media’s problems worse
Dan Shanoff Sports media enters the Bronny era
Tonya Mosley The neutrality vs. objectivity game ends
Don Day Respect the non-paying audience
Doris Truong The year of radical salary transparency
Cindy Royal Prepare media students for skills, not job titles
Rachel Davis Mersey The business of local TV news will enter its downward slide
Josh Schwartz Publishers move beyond the metered paywall
Sarah Alvarez I’m ready for post-news
Meredith Artley Stronger solidarity among news organizations
Carrie Brown-Smith Engaged journalism: It’s finally happening
Masuma Ahuja Slower, quieter, more measured and thoughtful
Ben Werdmuller Use the tools of journalism to save it
Stefanie Murray Charitable giving goes collaborative
Cristina Kim Public media stops trying to serve “everybody”
Rick Berke Incoming fire from both left and right
Hossein Derakhshan AI can’t conjure up an Errol Morris
An Xiao Mina The Forum we wanted, the forum we got
Mario García Think small (screen)
Matthew Pressman News consumers divide into haves and have-nots
Helen Havlak Platforms shine a light on original reporting
Greg Emerson News apps fall further behind
Kourtney Bitterly Transparency isn’t just a desire, it’s an expectation
Sonali Prasad Climate change storytelling gets multidimensional
Kerri Hoffman Opening closed systems
Heather Bryant Some kinds of journalism aren’t worth saving
Joni Deutsch Podcasting unsilences the silent
Rachel Glickhouse Journalists get left behind in the industry’s decline
Mike Caulfield Native verification tools for the blue checkmark crowd
Joanne McNeil A return to blogs (finally? sort of?)
Fiona Spruill The climate crisis gets the coverage it deserves
Peter Bale Lies get further normalized
Imaeyen Ibanga Let’s take it slow
Tanya Cordrey Saying no to more good ideas
Zizi Papacharissi A president leads, the press follows, reality fades
Margarita Noriega The platforms try to figure out what to do with single-subject newsrooms
Julia B. Chan We 👏 take 👏 breaks 👏
Juleyka Lantigua A changing industry amps up podcasters’ ambitions
Catalina Albeanu Rebuilding journalism, together
Kathleen Searles Pay more attention to attention
Jim Brady We’ll complain about other people living in bubbles while ignoring our own
Moreno Cruz Osório In Brazil, collaboration in a time of state attacks
Michael W. Wagner Increasingly fractured, but little bit deliberative
Brenda P. Salinas Treating MP3 files like text
Alana Levinson Brand-backed media gets another look
Madelyn Sanfilippo and Yafit Lev-Aretz News coverage gets geo-fragmented
Jakob Moll A slow-moving tech backlash among young people
J. Siguru Wahutu Western journalists, learn from your African peers
Linda Solomon Wood Everyone in your organization, moving toward a common goal
John Keefe Journalism gets hacked
Brian Moritz The end of “stick to sports”
Jeremy Gilbert and Jarrod Dicker A call for collaboration between storytelling and tech
Sue Robinson Campaign coverage as test bed for engagement experiments
Nicholas Jackson What’s left of local gets comfortable with reader support
Pablo Boczkowski The day after November 4
Alfred Hermida and Mary Lynn Young The promise of nonprofit journalism
Victor Pickard We reclaim a public good
Rachel Schallom The value of push alerts goes beyond open rates
Nico Gendron Make better products if you want to reach Gen Z
Nathalie Malinarich Betting on loyalty
Tom Glaisyer Journalism can emerge newly vibrant and powerful
Beena Raghavendran The year of the local engagement reporter
Irving Washington Leadership isn’t something you learn on the job