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