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.

Alberto Cairo   Communicating uncertainty to our readers

Ken Schwencke   Disaggregation and collection

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

Caitlin Thompson   High touch, high value

Nathalie Malinarich   Making it easy

Helen Havlak   Chasing mobile search results

Erin Pettigrew   A year of reflection in tech

Erin Millar   The bottom falls out of Canadian media

Rachel Schallom   Stop flying over the flyover states

Bill Adair   The year of the fact-checking bot

Ole Reißmann   Un-faking the news

Cory Haik   Navigating power in Trump’s America

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

Ståle Grut   The battle for high-quality VR

Javaun Moradi   What can we own?

Amie Ferris-Rotman   Вслед за Россией

Lee Glendinning   A call for great editing

Keren Goldshlager   Defining a focus, and then saying no

Christopher Meighan   Unlocking a deeper mobile experience

Reyhan Harmanci   Bear witness — but then what?

Ryan McCarthy   Platforms grow up or grow more toxic

Eric Nuzum   Podcasting stratifies into hard layers

Errin Haines   Chaos or community?

Sarah Wolozin   Virtual reality on the open web

Andrew Losowsky   Building our own communities

Libby Bawcombe   Kids board the podcast train

Umbreen Bhatti   A sense of journalists’ humanity

Dan Colarusso   Let’s make live video we can love

Jonathan Stray   A boom in responsible conservative media

Mira Lowe   News literacy, bias, and “Hamilton”

Scott Dodd   Nonprofits team up for impact

Andrea Silenzi   Podcasts dive into breaking news analysis

Aja Bogdanoff   Comments start pulling their weight

Trushar Barot   API or die

Tracie Powell   Building reader relationships

Kawandeep Virdee   Moving deeper than the machine of clicks

S.P. Sullivan   Baking transparency into our routines

Pablo Boczkowski   Fake news and the future of journalism

Mary Meehan   Feeling blue in a red state

Sarah Marshall   Focusing on the why of the click

Doris Truong   Connecting with diverse perspectives

Bill Keller   A healthy skepticism about data

Dannagal G. Young   The return of the gatekeepers

Amy O'Leary   Not just covering communities, reaching them

Juliette De Maeyer and Dominique Trudel   A rebirth of populist journalism

P. Kim Bui   The year journalism teaches again

Tanya Cordrey   The resurgence of reach

Mark Armstrong   Time to pay up

Tim Griggs   The year we stop taking sides

Claire Wardle   Verification takes center stage

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

AX Mina   2017 is for the attention innovators

M. Scott Havens   Quality advertising to pair with quality content

Steve Henn   The next revolution is voice

Sam Ford   The year we talk about our awful metrics

Zizi Papacharissi   Distracted journalism looks in the mirror

Dan Gillmor   Fix the demand side of news too

Ariane Bernard   Better data about your users

Molly de Aguiar   Philanthropists galvanize around news

Mary Walter-Brown   Getting comfortable asking for money

Olivia Ma   The year collaboration beats competition

Joanne Lipman   The year of the drone, really

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

Mike Ragsdale   A smarter information diet

Rubina Madan Fillion   Snapchat grows up

David Weigel   A test for online speech

Julia Beizer   Building a coherent core identity

Jon Slade   Trusted news, at a premium

Cindy Royal   Preparing the digital educator-scholar hybrid

Michael Oreskes   Reversing the erosion of democracy

Alexis Lloyd   Public trust for private realities

Ray Soto   VR moves from experiments to immersion

Samantha Barry   Messaging apps go mainstream

Jim Friedlich   A banner year for venture philanthropy

Ashley C. Woods   Local journalism will fight a new fight

Margarita Noriega   From pinning tweets to tweeting pins

Emi Kolawole   From empathy to community

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

Mario García   Virtual reality on mobile leaps forward

Laura Walker   Authentic voices, not fake news

Laura E. Davis   Show your work

Almar Latour   Thanks, #fakenews

Mandy Velez   The audience is the source and the story

Corey Ford   The year of the rebelpreneur

Burt Herman   Local news gets interesting

Peter Sterne   A dangerous anti-press mix

Sue Schardt   Objectivity, fairness, balance, and love

Mathew Ingram   The Faustian Facebook dance continues

Juan Luis Sánchez   Your predictions are our present

Geetika Rudra   Journalism is community

Andy Rossback   The year of the user

Francesco Marconi   The year of augmented writing

Renée Kaplan   Pure reach has reached its limit

Rachel Sklar   Women are going to get loud

Nicholas Quah   Podcasting’s coming class war

Annemarie Dooling   UGC as a path out of the bubble

Katie Zhu   The year of minority media

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

Sara M. Watson   There is no neutral interface

David Skok   What lies beyond paywalls

Swati Sharma   Failing diversity is failing journalism

Jeremy Barr   A terrible year for Tiers B through D

Priya Ganapati   Mobile websites are ready for reinvention

Megan H. Chan   Cultural reporting goes mainstream

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

Michael Kuntz   Trust is the new click

Alice Antheaume   A new test for French media

Coleen O'Lear   Back to basics

Matt Waite   The people running the media are the problem

Vivian Schiller   Tested like never before

Hillary Frey   Forests need to burn to regrow

Matt Karolian   AI improves publishing

Gabriel Snyder   The aberration of 20th-century journalism

Carla Zanoni   Prioritizing emotional health

Tim Herrera   The safe space of service journalism

Liz Danzico   The triumph of the small

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

Adam Thomas   The coming collaboration across Europe

Robert Hernandez   History will exclude you, again

Jonathan Hunt   Measurement companies get with the times

Dhiya Kuriakose   The year of digital detoxing

Rebekah Monson   Journalism is community-as-a-service

Melody Kramer   Radically rethinking design

Kathleen Kingsbury   Print as a premium offering

Taylor Lorenz   “Selfie journalism” becomes a thing

Moreno Cruz Osório   The year of transparency in Brazilian journalism

Guy Raz   Inspiration and hope will matter more than ever

Andrew Ramsammy   Rise of the rebel journalist

Elizabeth Jensen   Trust depends on the details

Amy Webb   Journalism as a service

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Truthiness in private spaces

Sydette Harry   Facing journalism’s history

Andrew Haeg   The year of listening

Emily Goligoski   Incorporating audience feedback at scale

Liz McMillen   The year of deep insights

Millie Tran   International expansion without colonial overtones

Felix Salmon   Headlines matter

David Chavern   Fake news gets solved

Carrie Brown   We won’t do enough

Asma Khalid   The year of the newsy podcast