Rather than predict what journalism funders will do in 2023 (because who can ever predict that — or, more important, what they’ll keep doing for more than a cycle?), I’ve chosen instead to manifest: to offer five aspirational thoughts for journalism philanthropy in 2023, for the purpose of making them actually happen.
Barbara Raab is senior program advisor at the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation.
Rather than predict what journalism funders will do in 2023 (because who can ever predict that — or, more important, what they’ll keep doing for more than a cycle?), I’ve chosen instead to manifest: to offer five aspirational thoughts for journalism philanthropy in 2023, for the purpose of making them actually happen.
Barbara Raab is senior program advisor at the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation.
Eric Thurm Journalists think of themselves as workers
Jim VandeHei There is no “peak newsletter”
Upasna Gautam Technology that performs at the speed of news
Barbara Raab More journalism funders will take more risks
Christina Shih Shared values move from nice-to-haves to essentials
Peter Sterne AI enters the newsroom
Karina Montoya More reporters on the antitrust beat
Julia Angwin Democracies will get serious about saving journalism
S. Mitra Kalita “Everything sucks. Good luck to you.”
Doris Truong Workers demand to be paid what the job is worth
A.J. Bauer Covering the right wrong
Sue Schardt Toward a new poetics of journalism
Peter Bale Rising costs force more digital innovation
Andrew Losowsky Journalism realizes the replacement for Twitter is not a new Twitter
Jenna Weiss-Berman The economic downturn benefits the podcasting industry. (No, really!)
Dominic-Madori Davis Everyone finally realizes the need for diverse voices in tech reporting
Anna Nirmala News organizations get new structures
Mariana Moura Santos A woman who speaks is a woman who changes the world
Jacob L. Nelson Despite it all, people will still want to be journalists
Khushbu Shah Global reporting will suffer
Jesse Holcomb Buffeted, whipped, bullied, pulled
Ryan Kellett Airline-like loyalty programs try to tie down news readers
J. Siguru Wahutu American journalism reckons with its colonialist tendencies
Christoph Mergerson The rot at the core of the news business
Richard Tofel The press might get better at vetting presidential candidates
Jennifer Brandel AI couldn’t care less. Journalists will care more.
Eric Nuzum A focus on people instead of power
Brian Moritz Rebuilding the news bundle
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Well-being will become a core tenet of journalism
Jarrad Henderson Video editing will help people understand the media they consume
Leezel Tanglao Community partnerships drive better reporting
Rodney Gibbs Recalibrating how we work apart
Jessica Maddox Journalists keep getting manipulated by internet culture
Josh Schwartz The AI spammers are coming
Esther Kezia Thorpe Subscription pressures force product innovation
Dannagal G. Young Stop rewarding elite performances of identity threat
Basile Simon Towards supporting criminal accountability
Michael Schudson Journalism gets more and more difficult
Mauricio Cabrera It’s no longer about audiences, it’s about communities
Jim Friedlich Local journalism steps up to the challenge of civic coverage
Ståle Grut Your newsroom experiences a Midjourney-gate, too
Taylor Lorenz The “creator economy” will be astroturfed
Alan Henry A reckoning with why trust in news is so low
Anita Varma Journalism prioritizes the basic need for survival
Delano Massey The industry shakes its imposter syndrome
Joshua P. Darr Local to live, wire to wither
Alexandra Borchardt The year of the climate journalism strategy
Kirstin McCudden We’ll codify protection of journalism and newsgathering
Eric Ulken Generative AI brings wrongness at scale
Tim Carmody Newsletter writers need a new ethics
Gordon Crovitz The year advertisers stop funding misinformation
Ben Werdmuller The internet is up for grabs again
Cassandra Etienne Local news fellowships will help fight newsroom inequities
Cindy Royal Yes, journalists should learn to code, but…
An Xiao Mina Journalism in a time of permacrisis
Francesco Zaffarano There is no end of “social media”
Pia Frey Publishers start polling their users at scale
Moreno Cruz Osório Brazilian journalism turns wounds into action
Janet Haven ChatGPT and the future of trust
Ryan Nave Citizen journalism, but make it equitable
Sue Cross Thinking and acting collectively to save the news
Walter Frick Journalists wake up to the power of prediction markets
Joe Amditis AI throws a lifeline to local publishers
Kerri Hoffman Podcasting goes local
Megan Lucero and Shirish Kulkarni The future of journalism is not you
Dana Lacey Tech will screw publishers over
Kavya Sukumar Belling the cat: The rise of independent fact-checking at scale
Sam Guzik AI will start fact-checking. We may not like the results.
Nikki Usher This is the year of the RSS reader. (Really!)
Daniel Trielli Trust in news will continue to fall. Just look at Brazil.
Tamar Charney Flux is the new stability
Mar Cabra The inevitable mental health revolution
Stefanie Murray The year U.S. media stops screwing around and becomes pro-democracy
Tre'vell Anderson Continued culpability in anti-trans campaigns
Kathy Lu We need emotionally agile newsroom leaders
Alex Perry New paths to transparency without Twitter
Sarah Stonbely Growth in public funding for news and information at the state and local levels
Priyanjana Bengani Partisan local news networks will collaborate
Ayala Panievsky It’s time for PR for journalism
Kaitlyn Wells We’ll prioritize media literacy for children
Emma Carew Grovum The year to resist forgetting about diversity
David Cohn AI made this prediction
Ariel Zirulnick Journalism doubles down on user needs
Nicholas Jackson There will be launches — and we’ll keep doing the work
Anika Anand Independent news businesses lead the way on healthy work cultures
Janelle Salanga Journalists work from a place of harm reduction
Susan Chira Equipping local journalism
Mael Vallejo More threats to press freedom across the Americas
Kaitlin C. Miller Harassment in journalism won’t get better, but we’ll talk about it more openly
Jonas Kaiser Rejecting the “free speech” frame
John Davidow A year of intergenerational learning
Joni Deutsch Podcast collaboration — not competition — breeds excellence
Cari Nazeer and Emily Goligoski News organizations step up their support for caregivers
Matt Rasnic More newsroom workers turn to organized labor
Elite Truong In platform collapse, an opportunity for community
Snigdha Sur Newsrooms get nimble in a recession
Lisa Heyamoto The independent news industry gets a roadmap to sustainability
Jody Brannon We’ll embrace policy remedies
Alex Sujong Laughlin Credit where it’s due
Juleyka Lantigua Newsrooms recognize women of color as the canaries in the coal mine
Laura E. Davis The year we embrace the robots — and ourselves
Cory Bergman The AI content flood
Eric Holthaus As social media fragments, marginalized voices gain more power
Joanne McNeil Facebook and the media kiss and make up
Johannes Klingebiel The innovation team, R.I.P.
Amethyst J. Davis The slight of the great contraction
Wilson Liévano Diaspora journalism takes the next step
Ryan Gantz “I’m sorry, but I’m a large language model”
Zizi Papacharissi Platforms are over
Larry Ryckman We’ll work together with our competitors
Nicholas Thompson The year AI actually changes the media business
Brian Stelter Finding new ways to reach news avoiders
Errin Haines Journalists on the campaign trail mend trust with the public
Jaden Amos TikTok personality journalists continue to rise
Don Day The news about the news is bad. I’m optimistic.
Sarabeth Berman Nonprofit local news shows that it can scale
Jakob Moll Journalism startups will think beyond English
Masuma Ahuja Journalism starts working for and with its communities
Parker Molloy We’ll reach new heights of moral panic
Sue Robinson Engagement journalism will have to confront a tougher reality
Sam Gregory Synthetic media forces us to understand how media gets made
Burt Herman The year AI truly arrives — and with it the reckoning
Mario García More newsrooms go mobile-first
Sarah Alvarez Dream bigger or lose out
Michael W. Wagner The backlash against pro-democracy reporting is coming
Simon Galperin Philanthropy stops investing in corporate media
Al Lucca Digital news design gets interesting again
Paul Cheung More news organizations will realize they are in the business of impact, not eyeballs
Rachel Glickhouse Humanizing newsrooms will be a badge of honor
Martina Efeyini Talk to Gen Z. They’re the experts of Gen Z.
Sumi Aggarwal Smart newsrooms will prioritize board development
Bill Grueskin Local news will come to rely on AI
Mary Walter-Brown and Tristan Loper Mission-driven metrics become our North Star
Jennifer Choi and Jonathan Jackson Funders finally bet on next-generation news entrepreneurs
Victor Pickard The year journalism and capitalism finally divorce
Emily Nonko Incarcerated reporters get more bylines
Gina Chua The traditional story structure gets deconstructed
Alexandra Svokos Working harder to reach audiences where they are
Laxmi Parthasarathy Unlocking the silent demand for international journalism
Felicitas Carrique and Becca Aaronson News product goes from trend to standard
Hillary Frey Death to the labor-intensive memo for prospective hires
Nicholas Diakopoulos Journalists productively harness generative AI tools
Amy Schmitz Weiss Journalism education faces a crossroads
Gabe Schneider Well-funded journalism leaders stop making disparate pay
Surya Mattu Data journalists learn from photojournalists
Raney Aronson-Rath Journalists will band together to fight intimidation
Danielle K. Brown and Kathleen Searles DEI efforts must consider mental health and online abuse
Jessica Clark Open discourse retrenches
Elizabeth Bramson-Boudreau More of the same
Shanté Cosme The answer to “quiet quitting” is radical empathy
Andrew Donohue We’ll find out whether journalism can, indeed, save democracy
Julia Beizer News fatigue shows us a clear path forward
Sarah Marshall A web channel strategy won’t be enough
David Skok Renewed interest in human-powered reporting
Bill Adair The year of the fact-check (no, really!)
Molly de Aguiar and Mandy Van Deven Narrative change trend brings new money to journalism