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#metoo jumps the niche. Or does it?
The social web overtakes, exhausts, exhilarates, spreads, connects, reinforces, divides. Hashtag power. Deep in the niche, it’s easy to ignore those without time or equipment or mind space or care to be in the game.
Hello net neutrality! Goodbye!
What happens if we don’t trust The Social?
People eat together, pray, argue, dance, watch, listen. The physical space of community is an opening frontier where we will turn, more and more, to share and make our stories.
Sue Schardt is CEO of AIR.
Ruth Palmer Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities
Jamie Mottram From pageviews to t-shirts
Tracie Powell The muting of underserved voices
Daniel Trielli The rich get richer, the poor scramble
Kawandeep Virdee Zines had it right all along
Mariano Blejman News games rule
Kim Fox Audience teams diversify their approach
Michelle Garcia Navigating journalistic transparency
Zizi Papacharissi Women come back
Ståle Grut Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks
Raju Narisetti Mirror, mirror on the wall
Joanne Lipman Journalists inventing revenue streams
Claire Wardle Disinformation gets worse
Manoush Zomorodi Self-help as a publishing strategy
Heather Bryant Building the ecosystems for collaboration
Jennifer Choi Standing up for us and for each other
Alan Soon The rise of start of psychographic, micro-targeted media
Sydette Harry Listen to your corner and watch for the hook
Debra Adams Simmons And a woman shall lead them
Borja Echevarría TV goes digital, digital goes TV
Alastair Coote The year of self-improvement
Amie Ferris-Rotman More female reporters abroad (please)
AX Mina Memes and visuals come to the fore
Michelle Ferrier The year of the great reckoning
Emily Goligoski Looking beyond news for inspiration
Alexios Mantzarlis Moving fake news research out of the lab
Errin Haines At the ballot, it’s time to count black women
Jim Moroney Newspapers have to be good enough for readers to pay for
Nik Usher The year of The Washington Post
P. Kim Bui The reckoning is only beginning
Jim Brady With the people, not just of the people
Trushar Barot The Jio-fication of India
Corey Ford The empire strikes back
Evie Nagy Pivot to mobile video frustration
Mi-Ai Parrish Blockchain and trust
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen The Snapchat scenario and the risk of more closed platforms
Caitria O'Neill The new court of public opinion
Marie Gilot No assholes allowed
Jessica Parker Gilbert Design connects storytelling and strategy
Sally Lehrman Trust comes first
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Seeking trust in fragmented spaces
Justin Kosslyn The year journalists become digital security experts
Dheerja Kaur Fun with subscription products
Cory Haik Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact
Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer Skepticism and narcissism
Juliette De Maeyer A responsible press criticism
Jesse Holcomb Information disorder, coming to a congressional district near you
Christopher Meighan Passive partnership is in the rearview
Alice Antheaume Are you fluent in AI?
Julia Beizer A longer view on the pivot
Andrew Losowsky The year of resilience
Caitlin Thompson Podcasting models mature and diversify
Rodney Gibbs Tech workers turn to journalism
Andrew Haeg The year journalists become relationship builders
Raney Aronson-Rath Transparency is the antidote to fake news
Amy Webb Listen to weak signals
Juleyka Lantigua Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time
Steve Grove The midterms are an opportunity
Aron Pilhofer We can’t leave the business to the business side any more
Mary Meehan Real lives are at stake in rural areas
Matt Boggie The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea
Molly de Aguiar Good journalism won’t be enough
Edward Roussel Eyes, ears, and brains
Amy King Let’s amplify visual voice
Miguel Castro The arrival of the impact producer
Carrie Brown Transparency finally takes off
Millie Tran and Stine Bauer Dahlberg (Hint: It’s about your brand)
Lam Thuy Vo Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest
Joyce Barnathan It will be harder to bury the news
Dan Shanoff You down with OTT? (Yeah, DTC)
Jennifer Coogan The future is female
Richard Tofel The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention
Cristina Wilson The year of the Instagram Story
Rubina Madan Fillion Unlocking the potential of AI
Ray Soto VR reaches the next level
Sam Ford The year of investing in processes
Gordon Crovitz Serving readers over advertisers
Rachel Schallom Better design helps differentiate opinion and news
Nushin Rashidian Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives
Vanessa K. DeLuca Women’s voices take center stage
Niketa Patel Live journalism comes of age
Brian Lam Sketchy ethics around product reviews
Vivian Schiller Pivot to tomorrow
Imaeyen Ibanga Longform video leads the way
Lucas Graves From algorithms to institutions
Charo Henríquez Training is an investment, not an expense
C.W. Anderson The social media apocalypse
Kathleen McElroy Building a news video experience native to mobile
Eric Ulken The year local publishers get smart(er) about change
Hannah Cassius The year of the echo-chamber escapists
Adam Thomas Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor
Alfred Hermida Going beyond mobile-first
Michael Kuntz The only pivot that might work
Helen Havlak Keywords, not publishers, power the world’s biggest feeds
Mary Walter-Brown Show a little vulnerability
Federica Cherubini The rise of bridge roles in news organizations
José Zamora Revenue-first journalism
Will Sommer The year local media gets conservative
Joanne McNeil Gatekeeping the gatekeepers
Elizabeth Jensen Show your work
Nicholas Quah Stop talking trash about young people
Craig Newmark Working together toward sustainable solutions
Ernst-Jan Pfauth Publishing less to give readers more
Pablo Boczkowski The rise of skeptical reading
Sam Sanders Shine the light on ourselves
Monique Judge Letting black women tell their own stories
Pia Frey Address users as individuals
Feli Sánchez The year for guerrilla user research
Susie Banikarim R.I.P. Pivot to Video (2017–2017)
Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán The editorial meeting of the future
Sara M. Watson Feeds will open up to new user-determined filters
Damon Krukowski Reviving the alt-weekly soul
Julia B. Chan Looking for loyalty in all the right places
Yvonne Leow The rise of video messaging
Francesco Marconi The year of machine-to-machine journalism
Mira Lowe The year of the local watchdog
Luke O'Neil The end is already here
Doris Truong Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes
Tanzina Vega It’s time for media companies to #PassTheMic
Mandy Velez texting is lit rn, fam
Umbreen Bhatti The trust problem isn’t new
Mario García Storytelling finally adapts to mobile
S. Mitra Kalita The arc of news and audience
Tamar Charney We get serious about algorithms
Laura E. Davis Writing answers before you know the question
Bill Keller A growing turn to philanthropy
Taylor Lorenz Social and media will split
Renée Kaplan The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)
Sarah Marshall Loyalty as the key performance indicator
Basile Simon We need better career paths for news nerds
Carlos Martínez de la Serna The new journalism commons
Jarrod Dicker Honesty in advertising
Matt Carlson Attacks on the press will get worse
Kristen Muller The year of the voter
Tim Carmody Watch out for Spotify
Mike Caulfield Refactoring media literacy for the networked age
David Skok Finding an information-life balance
Andrew Ramsammy The year ownership mattered
Rodney Benson Better, less read, and less trusted
Jacqui Cheng Retailers move into content
Marcela Donini and Thiago Herdy Collaboration is the way forward for Brazilian journalism
Matt Thompson Here come the attention managers
Kyle Ellis Let’s build our way out of this
Hossein Derakhshan Television has won
Monika Bauerlein The firehose of falsehood
Jared Newman Venture funding and digital news don’t mix
Rick Berke Value is the watchword
Emma Carew Grovum Newsroom culture becomes a priority
Rachel Davis Mersey AI, with real smarts
Lanre Akinola Making noise is not a strategy
Matt DeRienzo A recession, then a collapse
Tanya Cordrey Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention
Nicholas Diakopoulos Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity
Jassim Ahmad Thriving on change
Cindy Royal Your journalism curriculum is obsolete
Mariana Moura Santos Think local, act global
Corey Johnson The pro-fact resistance
Kinsey Wilson Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up
Dannagal G. Young Stop covering politics as a game
Frédéric Filloux External forces