Jamie Mottram is director of content development at the USA TODAY Sports Media Group, which includes the viral sports site For The Win.
Lydia Polgreen More is less (or too much)
Richard Tofel Living on borrowed time
Tiff Fehr Disrupt the buzzword backlash
Dheerja Kaur Content creators are users too
Kawandeep Virdee Siphoning from social tech
Latoya Peterson News in a remix-focused culture
Rachel Sklar Cut the excuses: Diversity takes work
Noah Chestnut The first 45 taps
Jamie Mottram 160 characters is the new 140 characters
Juliette De Maeyer Immersion in (virtual) reality
S. Mitra Kalita Authenticity, expertise, and intimacy
Robert Hernandez Los Angeles is the content future
Sarah Marshall The allure of a finishable news experience
Robin Sloan BuzzFeed will hire a public editor
Maria Bustillos A return to subscriptions
Matt Waite Fewer and fewer shut-off valves
Jacob Harris A wave of P.R. data
Heidi Moore The readers we can’t friend
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen U.S. tech gets more political worldwide
Philip Bump The year news notifications need to grow up
Zizi Papacharissi More gonzo, less paywall
Jason Parham The rise of the personal-public beef
Matt Thompson The season of seasons
Ryan Gantz Bad community is worse than no community
Millie Tran Smart filters on the rise
Almar Latour From walls to canals
Dan Shanoff This is the new that
Raney Aronson-Rath Finding the right form
Alfred Hermida The fall and rise of the news bundle
Amy Webb Consumer-aware, context-aware
Katherine Bell Management is both the problem and the solution
C.W. Anderson Beyond journalism in the present tense
Melody Kramer Crowdsourcing the future of news
David Sleight What might vs. what should
Amanda Hale Native helps pay for the news
Rachel Davis Mersey Reducing the cognitive burden of news
John Herrman The year we finally hear how we sound
Stacy-Marie Ishmael Text-plus, not post-text
Sue Schardt The year of yes
Reyhan Harmanci Freelancing sucks
Pablo Boczkowski News organizations get serious about research
Mira Lowe Metrics, smaller screens, and race
Emi Kolawole The rise of the jacktivist
Lauren Henry Scholz Accepting anonymity
Nicholas Diakopoulos Platforming the news
Craig Saila Personalization reaches newsrooms
Katie Zhu The news mixtape
Katie Park The year you get hacked
Felix Salmon The beginning of the end of Facebook’s traffic engine
Alisha Ramos Reporters, designers, and developers become BFFs
Jer Thorp More data, fewer questions
Aaron Edwards Diversity: Don’t talk about it, be about it
Matt Dennewitz Ads that keep up with editorial
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Many more eyes in the sky
Zeynep Tufekci The year we get creeped out by algorithms
Trushar Barot The rise of digital India
Jeanne Brooks More listening, more collaborating
Paul Ford The capital hook
Aaron Williams Security and subtlety
Dayo Olopade Learning from mobile-first markets
Errin Haines Race is your beat, too
Cory Haik The year of the reader
Raju Narisetti A thaw in the newsroom glacier
Alberto Cairo Visualization goes mainstream
Hayley Nelson Managing assets across platforms