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