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