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