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