A smarter information diet

“We’ve gotten to where we don’t deliver the news people need — we deliver the news people want. And I think that’s dangerous.”

Mike Ragsdale is CEO and founder of 30A, a Florida local news site that generates over $1 million in revenue per year.

Amy Webb   Journalism as a service

Andrew Losowsky   Building our own communities

Priya Ganapati   Mobile websites are ready for reinvention

Nushin Rashidian   A rise in high-price, high-value subscriptions

Millie Tran   International expansion without colonial overtones

Rachel Schallom   Stop flying over the flyover states

Liz Danzico   The triumph of the small

Erin Millar   The bottom falls out of Canadian media

Lam Thuy Vo   The primary source in the age of mechanical multiplication

Tressie McMillan Cottom   A path through the media’s coming legitimacy crisis

Trushar Barot   API or die

Ashley C. Woods   Local journalism will fight a new fight

Tanya Cordrey   The resurgence of reach

Dan Colarusso   Let’s make live video we can love

Samantha Barry   Messaging apps go mainstream

Steve Henn   The next revolution is voice

Ståle Grut   The battle for high-quality VR

Asma Khalid   The year of the newsy podcast

Elizabeth Jensen   Trust depends on the details

Rebekah Monson   Journalism is community-as-a-service

Javaun Moradi   What can we own?

Scott Dodd   Nonprofits team up for impact

Rachel Sklar   Women are going to get loud

Claire Wardle   Verification takes center stage

Coleen O'Lear   Back to basics

Nicholas Quah   Podcasting’s coming class war

Tim Griggs   The year we stop taking sides

Bill Keller   A healthy skepticism about data

Moreno Cruz Osório   The year of transparency in Brazilian journalism

Mary Meehan   Feeling blue in a red state

Robert Hernandez   History will exclude you, again

Matt Karolian   AI improves publishing

Dhiya Kuriakose   The year of digital detoxing

Ken Schwencke   Disaggregation and collection

Francesco Marconi   The year of augmented writing

Andrea Silenzi   Podcasts dive into breaking news analysis

Doris Truong   Connecting with diverse perspectives

Sue Schardt   Objectivity, fairness, balance, and love

David Skok   What lies beyond paywalls

Margarita Noriega   From pinning tweets to tweeting pins

Maria Bustillos   “It’s true — I saw it on Facebook”

Laura E. Davis   Show your work

Sydette Harry   Facing journalism’s history

Jonathan Stray   A boom in responsible conservative media

Aja Bogdanoff   Comments start pulling their weight

Emi Kolawole   From empathy to community

Jim Friedlich   A banner year for venture philanthropy

P. Kim Bui   The year journalism teaches again

Sara M. Watson   There is no neutral interface

Anita Zielina   The sales funnel reaches (and changes) the newsroom

Nathalie Malinarich   Making it easy

Kawandeep Virdee   Moving deeper than the machine of clicks

Andy Rossback   The year of the user

Jon Slade   Trusted news, at a premium

Vivian Schiller   Tested like never before

David Weigel   A test for online speech

Libby Bawcombe   Kids board the podcast train

Megan H. Chan   Cultural reporting goes mainstream

Amy O'Leary   Not just covering communities, reaching them

M. Scott Havens   Quality advertising to pair with quality content

Corey Ford   The year of the rebelpreneur

Jeremy Barr   A terrible year for Tiers B through D

Tracie Powell   Building reader relationships

Swati Sharma   Failing diversity is failing journalism

Andrew Ramsammy   Rise of the rebel journalist

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Truthiness in private spaces

Molly de Aguiar   Philanthropists galvanize around news

Helen Havlak   Chasing mobile search results

Eric Nuzum   Podcasting stratifies into hard layers

Bill Adair   The year of the fact-checking bot

Juan Luis Sánchez   Your predictions are our present

Umbreen Bhatti   A sense of journalists’ humanity

Taylor Lorenz   “Selfie journalism” becomes a thing

Caitlin Thompson   High touch, high value

Ryan McCarthy   Platforms grow up or grow more toxic

Julia Beizer   Building a coherent core identity

Matt Waite   The people running the media are the problem

Cory Haik   Navigating power in Trump’s America

Mary Walter-Brown   Getting comfortable asking for money

Mark Armstrong   Time to pay up

Cindy Royal   Preparing the digital educator-scholar hybrid

Sarah Wolozin   Virtual reality on the open web

Christopher Meighan   Unlocking a deeper mobile experience

Mira Lowe   News literacy, bias, and “Hamilton”

Felix Salmon   Headlines matter

Mike Ragsdale   A smarter information diet

Laura Walker   Authentic voices, not fake news

Hillary Frey   Forests need to burn to regrow

Mathew Ingram   The Faustian Facebook dance continues

Keren Goldshlager   Defining a focus, and then saying no

Alice Antheaume   A new test for French media

Alberto Cairo   Communicating uncertainty to our readers

Ernst-Jan Pfauth   Earn trust by working for (and with) readers

Richard Tofel   The country doesn’t trust us — but they do believe us

Kathleen Kingsbury   Print as a premium offering

Reyhan Harmanci   Bear witness — but then what?

Mario García   Virtual reality on mobile leaps forward

Mandy Velez   The audience is the source and the story

Ray Soto   VR moves from experiments to immersion

Alexis Lloyd   Public trust for private realities

Emily Goligoski   Incorporating audience feedback at scale

Andrew Haeg   The year of listening

Joanne Lipman   The year of the drone, really

Adam Thomas   The coming collaboration across Europe

Guy Raz   Inspiration and hope will matter more than ever

Ariane Bernard   Better data about your users

Michael Oreskes   Reversing the erosion of democracy

Lee Glendinning   A call for great editing

Almar Latour   Thanks, #fakenews

Liz McMillen   The year of deep insights

Amie Ferris-Rotman   Вслед за Россией

Tim Herrera   The safe space of service journalism

David Chavern   Fake news gets solved

Errin Haines   Chaos or community?

Katie Zhu   The year of minority media

Gabriel Snyder   The aberration of 20th-century journalism

Ole Reißmann   Un-faking the news

Olivia Ma   The year collaboration beats competition

Peter Sterne   A dangerous anti-press mix

Erin Pettigrew   A year of reflection in tech

Juliette De Maeyer and Dominique Trudel   A rebirth of populist journalism

Carla Zanoni   Prioritizing emotional health

Burt Herman   Local news gets interesting

Dan Gillmor   Fix the demand side of news too

Geetika Rudra   Journalism is community

Sarah Marshall   Focusing on the why of the click

Dannagal G. Young   The return of the gatekeepers

Rubina Madan Fillion   Snapchat grows up

Annemarie Dooling   UGC as a path out of the bubble

Sam Ford   The year we talk about our awful metrics

S.P. Sullivan   Baking transparency into our routines

Michael Kuntz   Trust is the new click

Pablo Boczkowski   Fake news and the future of journalism

Carrie Brown-Smith   We won’t do enough

Melody Kramer   Radically rethinking design

Zizi Papacharissi   Distracted journalism looks in the mirror

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen   News after advertising may look like news before advertising

AX Mina   2017 is for the attention innovators

Renée Kaplan   Pure reach has reached its limit

Jonathan Hunt   Measurement companies get with the times