There will be a libel suit against pro-Trump online trolls who spread lies about a person or business, and it’ll test the laws governing online speech.
David Weigel is a national political correspondent for The Washington Post.
Laura Walker Authentic voices, not fake news
Asma Khalid The year of the newsy podcast
Emily Goligoski Incorporating audience feedback at scale
Eric Nuzum Podcasting stratifies into hard layers
Taylor Lorenz “Selfie journalism” becomes a thing
Renée Kaplan Pure reach has reached its limit
Erin Pettigrew A year of reflection in tech
Tim Herrera The safe space of service journalism
Priya Ganapati Mobile websites are ready for reinvention
Steve Henn The next revolution is voice
Peter Sterne A dangerous anti-press mix
Christopher Meighan Unlocking a deeper mobile experience
Jeremy Barr A terrible year for Tiers B through D
Michael Kuntz Trust is the new click
Alice Antheaume A new test for French media
S.P. Sullivan Baking transparency into our routines
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Truthiness in private spaces
Elizabeth Jensen Trust depends on the details
Zizi Papacharissi Distracted journalism looks in the mirror
Mathew Ingram The Faustian Facebook dance continues
Andrea Silenzi Podcasts dive into breaking news analysis
Katie Zhu The year of minority media
Matt Waite The people running the media are the problem
Ståle Grut The battle for high-quality VR
Guy Raz Inspiration and hope will matter more than ever
Amy Webb Journalism as a service
Carrie Brown-Smith We won’t do enough
Burt Herman Local news gets interesting
Jonathan Stray A boom in responsible conservative media
Mandy Velez The audience is the source and the story
Annemarie Dooling UGC as a path out of the bubble
Tracie Powell Building reader relationships
Amie Ferris-Rotman Вслед за Россией
Juliette De Maeyer and Dominique Trudel A rebirth of populist journalism
Ernst-Jan Pfauth Earn trust by working for (and with) readers
Sarah Marshall Focusing on the why of the click
Erin Millar The bottom falls out of Canadian media
P. Kim Bui The year journalism teaches again
Vivian Schiller Tested like never before
Aja Bogdanoff Comments start pulling their weight
Julia Beizer Building a coherent core identity
Claire Wardle Verification takes center stage
Bill Keller A healthy skepticism about data
Andrew Haeg The year of listening
David Weigel A test for online speech
Rachel Sklar Women are going to get loud
Rachel Schallom Stop flying over the flyover states
Tanya Cordrey The resurgence of reach
Mike Ragsdale A smarter information diet
Umbreen Bhatti A sense of journalists’ humanity
Megan H. Chan Cultural reporting goes mainstream
Pablo Boczkowski Fake news and the future of journalism
Jim Friedlich A banner year for venture philanthropy
Emi Kolawole From empathy to community
Adam Thomas The coming collaboration across Europe
M. Scott Havens Quality advertising to pair with quality content
Cory Haik Navigating power in Trump’s America
Libby Bawcombe Kids board the podcast train
Molly de Aguiar Philanthropists galvanize around news
Melody Kramer Radically rethinking design
Sam Ford The year we talk about our awful metrics
Keren Goldshlager Defining a focus, and then saying no
Nushin Rashidian A rise in high-price, high-value subscriptions
Ken Schwencke Disaggregation and collection
Mary Meehan Feeling blue in a red state
Moreno Cruz Osório The year of transparency in Brazilian journalism
Lee Glendinning A call for great editing
Amy O'Leary Not just covering communities, reaching them
Doris Truong Connecting with diverse perspectives
Caitlin Thompson High touch, high value
Ariane Bernard Better data about your users
Anita Zielina The sales funnel reaches (and changes) the newsroom
Javaun Moradi What can we own?
Sarah Wolozin Virtual reality on the open web
Ole Reißmann Un-faking the news
Matt Karolian AI improves publishing
Mary Walter-Brown Getting comfortable asking for money
Alexis Lloyd Public trust for private realities
Carla Zanoni Prioritizing emotional health
Sara M. Watson There is no neutral interface
Richard Tofel The country doesn’t trust us — but they do believe us
Olivia Ma The year collaboration beats competition
Hillary Frey Forests need to burn to regrow
Millie Tran International expansion without colonial overtones
Ryan McCarthy Platforms grow up or grow more toxic
Rebekah Monson Journalism is community-as-a-service
Lam Thuy Vo The primary source in the age of mechanical multiplication
Bill Adair The year of the fact-checking bot
David Chavern Fake news gets solved
Cindy Royal Preparing the digital educator-scholar hybrid
Andrew Losowsky Building our own communities
Jon Slade Trusted news, at a premium
Juan Luis Sánchez Your predictions are our present
Nicholas Quah Podcasting’s coming class war
Sydette Harry Facing journalism’s history
Ray Soto VR moves from experiments to immersion
Michael Oreskes Reversing the erosion of democracy
Robert Hernandez History will exclude you, again
Kawandeep Virdee Moving deeper than the machine of clicks
Mario García Virtual reality on mobile leaps forward
Almar Latour Thanks, #fakenews
Corey Ford The year of the rebelpreneur
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen News after advertising may look like news before advertising
Errin Haines Chaos or community?
Alberto Cairo Communicating uncertainty to our readers
Rubina Madan Fillion Snapchat grows up
Samantha Barry Messaging apps go mainstream
Joanne Lipman The year of the drone, really
Ashley C. Woods Local journalism will fight a new fight
Nathalie Malinarich Making it easy
Scott Dodd Nonprofits team up for impact
David Skok What lies beyond paywalls
Tressie McMillan Cottom A path through the media’s coming legitimacy crisis
Helen Havlak Chasing mobile search results
Dan Gillmor Fix the demand side of news too
Mira Lowe News literacy, bias, and “Hamilton”
Kathleen Kingsbury Print as a premium offering
Maria Bustillos “It’s true — I saw it on Facebook”
Tim Griggs The year we stop taking sides
Geetika Rudra Journalism is community
Gabriel Snyder The aberration of 20th-century journalism
Dannagal G. Young The return of the gatekeepers
Andy Rossback The year of the user
Sue Schardt Objectivity, fairness, balance, and love
Andrew Ramsammy Rise of the rebel journalist
Margarita Noriega From pinning tweets to tweeting pins
Jonathan Hunt Measurement companies get with the times
Reyhan Harmanci Bear witness — but then what?
Liz McMillen The year of deep insights
Dan Colarusso Let’s make live video we can love
Francesco Marconi The year of augmented writing
