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This is fine

“We interviewed Greta.”

Marie Gilot is the director of J+ at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

Marie Gilot is the director of J+ at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

Colleen Shalby   Journalists become media literacy teachers

Catalina Albeanu   Rebuilding journalism, together

Peter Bale   Lies get further normalized

Jasmine McNealy   A call for context

Dan Shanoff   Sports media enters the Bronny era

Pablo Boczkowski   The day after November 4

Jakob Moll   A slow-moving tech backlash among young people

S. Mitra Kalita   The race to 2021

Logan Jaffe   You don’t need fancy tools to listen

Julia B. Chan   We 👏 take 👏 breaks 👏

Zizi Papacharissi   A president leads, the press follows, reality fades

Heidi Tworek   The year of positive pushback

Jeremy Gilbert and Jarrod Dicker   A call for collaboration between storytelling and tech

Steve Henn   The dawning audio web

Moreno Cruz Osório   In Brazil, collaboration in a time of state attacks

M. Scott Havens   First-party data becomes media’s most important currency

Seth C. Lewis   20 questions for 2020

Knight Foundation   Five generations of journalists, learning from each other

An Xiao Mina   The Forum we wanted, the forum we got

Alexandra Borchardt   Get out of the office and talk to people

Craig Newmark   Formalizing newsrooms’ battle against disinformation

Matthew Pressman   News consumers divide into haves and have-nots

Kevin D. Grant   The free press stands against authoritarians’ attacks on truth

Rick Berke   Incoming fire from both left and right

Mike Caulfield   Native verification tools for the blue checkmark crowd

Irving Washington   Leadership isn’t something you learn on the job

Barbara Gray   Join local libraries on the frontlines of civic engagement

Tonya Mosley   The neutrality vs. objectivity game ends

John Keefe   Journalism gets hacked

Hossein Derakhshan   AI can’t conjure up an Errol Morris

Anthony Nadler   Clash of Clans: Election Edition

Lucas Graves   A smarter conversation about how (and why) fact-checking matters

Eric Nuzum   Podcasting finally creates another mega-hit show

Juleyka Lantigua   A changing industry amps up podcasters’ ambitions

Nicholas Jackson   What’s left of local gets comfortable with reader support

Joanne McNeil   A return to blogs (finally? sort of?)

Monica Drake   A renewed focus on misinformation

Helen Havlak   Platforms shine a light on original reporting

Jeff Kofman   Speed through technology

Kathleen Searles   Pay more attention to attention

Carl Bialik   Journalists will try running the whole shop

Geneva Overholser   Death to bothsidesism

Simon Galperin   Journalism becomes more democratic

Whitney Phillips   A time to question core beliefs

Joni Deutsch   Podcasting unsilences the silent

Jim Brady   We’ll complain about other people living in bubbles while ignoring our own

Sarah Stonbely   More people start caring about news inequality

Richard Tofel   A constraint of the reader-revenue model emerges

Mariana Moura Santos   The future of journalism is collaborative

Tom Glaisyer   Journalism can emerge newly vibrant and powerful

Jonas Kaiser   Russian bots are just today’s slacktivists

Cindy Royal   Prepare media students for skills, not job titles

Masuma Ahuja   Slower, quieter, more measured and thoughtful

Millie Tran   Wicked

Ben Werdmuller   Use the tools of journalism to save it

Doris Truong   The year of radical salary transparency

Felix Salmon   Spotify launches a news channel

Nushin Rashidian   Are platforms a bridge or a lifeline?

Gordon Crovitz   Fighting misinformation requires journalism, not secret algorithms

Marie Gilot   This is fine

Jennifer Brandel   A love letter from the year 2073

Greg Emerson   News apps fall further behind

Joshua P. Darr   All that campaign cash will make the media’s problems worse

Ståle Grut   OSINT journalism goes mainstream

Raney Aronson-Rath   News deserts will proliferate — but so will new solutions

Christa Scharfenberg   It’s time to make journalism a field that supports and respects women

Candis Callison   Taking a cue from Indigenous journalists on climate change

Jeremy Olshan   All journalism should be service journalism

Cory Haik   We’re already consuming the future of news — now we have to produce it

Lauren Duca   The rise of the journalistic influencer

Adam Thomas   The silver bullet

Matt DeRienzo   Local broadcasters begin to fill the gaps left by newspapers

Stefanie Murray   Charitable giving goes collaborative

Jake Shapiro   Podcasting gets listener relationship management

Francesco Zaffarano   TikTok without generational prejudice

Kerri Hoffman   Opening closed systems

Tanya Cordrey   Saying no to more good ideas

Dannagal G. Young   Let’s disrupt the logic that’s driving Americans apart

Bill Adair   A Nobel Prize, a Brad Pitt film, and a Taylor Swift song

Rachel Davis Mersey   The business of local TV news will enter its downward slide

Fiona Spruill   The climate crisis gets the coverage it deserves

Linda Solomon Wood   Everyone in your organization, moving toward a common goal

Meredith Artley   Stronger solidarity among news organizations

Brenda P. Salinas   Treating MP3 files like text

Annie Rudd   The expanded ambiguity of the news photograph

Mary Walter-Brown and Tristan Loper   Power to the people (on your audience team)

Don Day   Respect the non-paying audience

Rachel Schallom   The value of push alerts goes beyond open rates

Nico Gendron   Make better products if you want to reach Gen Z

Beena Raghavendran   The year of the local engagement reporter

Alfred Hermida and Mary Lynn Young   The promise of nonprofit journalism

Logan Molyneux and Shannon McGregor   Think twice before turning to Twitter

Imaeyen Ibanga   Let’s take it slow

Sarah Alvarez   I’m ready for post-news

Mira Lowe   The year of student-powered journalism

Meg Marco   Everything happens somewhere

Josh Schwartz   Publishers move beyond the metered paywall

Elizabeth Dunbar   Frank talk, and then action

Nikki Usher   All systems down

Rachel Glickhouse   Journalists get left behind in the industry’s decline

Nathalie Malinarich   Betting on loyalty

Mario García   Think small (screen)

Alana Levinson   Brand-backed media gets another look

Tamar Charney   From broadcast to bespoke

A.J. Bauer   A fork in the road for conservative media

Heather Bryant   Some kinds of journalism aren’t worth saving

Alice Antheaume   Trade “politics” for “power”

Kourtney Bitterly   Transparency isn’t just a desire, it’s an expectation

Carrie Brown-Smith   Engaged journalism: It’s finally happening

Kristen Muller   The year we operationalize community engagement

Emily Withrow   The year we kill the news article

Laura E. Davis   Know the context your journalism is operating within

Elizabeth Hansen and Jesse Holcomb   Local news initiatives run into a capital shortage

Cristina Kim   Public media stops trying to serve “everybody”

Madelyn Sanfilippo and Yafit Lev-Aretz   News coverage gets geo-fragmented

Sara K. Baranowski   A big year for little newspapers

Sarah Marshall   The year to learn about news moments

Victor Pickard   We reclaim a public good

Michael W. Wagner   Increasingly fractured, but little bit deliberative

Brian Moritz   The end of “stick to sports”

John Garrett   It’s the best time in a century to start a local news organization

Monique Judge   The year to organize, unionize, and fight

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen   The business we want, not the business we had

Ernie Smith   The death of the industry fad

Bill Grueskin   Our ethics codes get an overhaul

Talia Stroud   The work of reconnecting starts November 4

Sonali Prasad   Climate change storytelling gets multidimensional

Errin Haines   Race and gender aren’t a 2020 story — they’re the story

J. Siguru Wahutu   Western journalists, learn from your African peers

Sarah Schmalbach   Journalist, quantify thyself

Sue Robinson   Campaign coverage as test bed for engagement experiments

Joe Amditis   Collaborative journalism takes its rightful place at the table

Margarita Noriega   The platforms try to figure out what to do with single-subject newsrooms