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