The rise of video messaging

“What happens between now and virtual reality? It’s video messaging. Snapchat is already prepping us for this reality; the same with apps like Houseparty. They’re popularizing this idea that people are comfortable talking to each other via video.”

Yvonne Leow is president of the Asian American Journalists Association.

Taylor Lorenz   Social and media will split

Jennifer Coogan   The future is female

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Seeking trust in fragmented spaces

Nushin Rashidian   Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives

Heather Bryant   Building the ecosystems for collaboration

Pia Frey   Address users as individuals

Emma Carew Grovum   Newsroom culture becomes a priority

Ernst-Jan Pfauth   Publishing less to give readers more

Borja Echevarría   TV goes digital, digital goes TV

Edward Roussel   Eyes, ears, and brains

Feli Sánchez   The year for guerrilla user research

Rodney Gibbs   Tech workers turn to journalism

Dannagal G. Young   Stop covering politics as a game

Daniel Trielli   The rich get richer, the poor scramble

Yvonne Leow   The rise of video messaging

Jake Levine   The return to now

Raju Narisetti   Mirror, mirror on the wall

Corey Johnson   The pro-fact resistance

Felix Salmon   Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin

Amy Webb   Listen to weak signals

Cristina Wilson   The year of the Instagram Story

Rick Berke   Value is the watchword

Cory Haik   Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact

C.W. Anderson   The social media apocalypse

Ariana Tobin   Too tired to tap

Matt Boggie   The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea

Dheerja Kaur   Fun with subscription products

Federica Cherubini   The rise of bridge roles in news organizations

Charo Henríquez   Training is an investment, not an expense

Rodney Benson   Better, less read, and less trusted

Rubina Madan Fillion   Unlocking the potential of AI

Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán   The editorial meeting of the future

Helen Havlak   Keywords, not publishers, power the world’s biggest feeds

Jassim Ahmad   Thriving on change

Carrie Brown   Transparency finally takes off

Alan Soon   The rise of start of psychographic, micro-targeted media

Amy King   Let’s amplify visual voice

Andrew Losowsky   The year of resilience

Alastair Coote   The year of self-improvement

Tanya Cordrey   Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention

Manoush Zomorodi   Self-help as a publishing strategy

Nicholas Quah   Stop talking trash about young people

Michelle Ferrier   The year of the great reckoning

Dan Shanoff   You down with OTT? (Yeah, DTC)

Monika Bauerlein   The firehose of falsehood

Basile Simon   We need better career paths for news nerds

Alexios Mantzarlis   Moving fake news research out of the lab

Vanessa K. DeLuca   Women’s voices take center stage

Ruth Palmer   Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities

Dan Newman   A return to trust

Hossein Derakhshan   Television has won

John Keefe   Scooped by AI

Jesse Holcomb   Information disorder, coming to a congressional district near you

Joyce Barnathan   It will be harder to bury the news

Mary Meehan   Real lives are at stake in rural areas

Mariana Moura Santos   Think local, act global

Mike Caulfield   Refactoring media literacy for the networked age

Kyle Ellis   Let’s build our way out of this

Mary Walter-Brown   Show a little vulnerability

Debra Adams Simmons   And a woman shall lead them

Zizi Papacharissi   Women come back

Eric Nuzum   Beyond the narrative arc

Jared Newman   Venture funding and digital news don’t mix

Mira Lowe   The year of the local watchdog

Ståle Grut   Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks

Renée Kaplan   The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)

Eric Ulken   The year local publishers get smart(er) about change

Paul Ford   Go global

Sam Ford   The year of investing in processes

P. Kim Bui   The reckoning is only beginning

Craig Newmark   Working together toward sustainable solutions

Frédéric Filloux   External forces

Raney Aronson-Rath   Transparency is the antidote to fake news

Sydette Harry   Listen to your corner and watch for the hook

Corey Ford   The empire strikes back

Errin Haines   At the ballot, it’s time to count black women

Mariano Blejman   News games rule

Matt DeRienzo   A recession, then a collapse

Niketa Patel   Live journalism comes of age

Pete Brown   Push alerts, personalized

José Zamora   Revenue-first journalism

Michelle Garcia   Navigating journalistic transparency

Mandy Velez   texting is lit rn, fam

Justin Kosslyn   The year journalists become digital security experts

Cindy Royal   Your journalism curriculum is obsolete

Jennifer Choi   Standing up for us and for each other

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen   The Snapchat scenario and the risk of more closed platforms

Will Sommer   The year local media gets conservative

Andrew Ramsammy   The year ownership mattered

Molly de Aguiar   Good journalism won’t be enough

Evie Nagy   Pivot to mobile video frustration

Jamie Mottram   From pageviews to t-shirts

Michael Kuntz   The only pivot that might work

David Skok   Finding an information-life balance

Susie Banikarim   R.I.P. Pivot to Video (2017–2017)

Julia Beizer   A longer view on the pivot

Nathalie Malinarich   Peak push

Jacqui Cheng   Retailers move into content

Tamar Charney   We get serious about algorithms

Bill Keller   A growing turn to philanthropy

Laura E. Davis   Writing answers before you know the question

Kristen Muller   The year of the voter

Kelsey Proud   No, no, no

Sam Sanders   Shine the light on ourselves

Damon Krukowski   Reviving the alt-weekly soul

Elizabeth Jensen   Show your work

Sara M. Watson   Feeds will open up to new user-determined filters

Matt Carlson   Attacks on the press will get worse

Christopher Meighan   Passive partnership is in the rearview

Vivian Schiller   Pivot to tomorrow

Amie Ferris-Rotman   More female reporters abroad (please)

Miguel Castro   The arrival of the impact producer

Rachel Davis Mersey   AI, with real smarts

Joanne Lipman   Journalists inventing revenue streams

Lucas Graves   From algorithms to institutions

Caitria O'Neill   The new court of public opinion

Richard Tofel   The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention

Alice Antheaume   Are you fluent in AI?

Nik Usher   The year of The Washington Post

Adam Thomas   Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor

Mi-Ai Parrish   Blockchain and trust

Tim Carmody   Watch out for Spotify

Trushar Barot   The Jio-fication of India

Kathleen McElroy   Building a news video experience native to mobile

Pablo Boczkowski   The rise of skeptical reading

Carlos Martínez de la Serna   The new journalism commons

Mario García   Storytelling finally adapts to mobile

Imaeyen Ibanga   Longform video leads the way

Kim Fox   Audience teams diversify their approach

Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer   Skepticism and narcissism

Steve Grove   The midterms are an opportunity

Matt Thompson   Here come the attention managers

Burt Herman   Things get real

Jessica Parker Gilbert   Design connects storytelling and strategy

Sally Lehrman   Trust comes first

Jim Moroney   Newspapers have to be good enough for readers to pay for

Juliette De Maeyer   A responsible press criticism

Juleyka Lantigua   Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time

Marie Gilot   No assholes allowed

Usha Sahay   Wallets get opened

Almar Latour   Conquering calm

Julia B. Chan   Looking for loyalty in all the right places

Jim Brady   With the people, not just of the people

Francesco Marconi   The year of machine-to-machine journalism

Rachel Schallom   Better design helps differentiate opinion and news

Millie Tran and Stine Bauer Dahlberg   (Hint: It’s about your brand)

Nancy Watzman   Know thy TV

S. Mitra Kalita   The arc of news and audience

Luke O'Neil   The end is already here

Kawandeep Virdee   Zines had it right all along

Kinsey Wilson   Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up

Ray Soto   VR reaches the next level

Joanne McNeil   Gatekeeping the gatekeepers

Lam Thuy Vo   Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest

Tanzina Vega   It’s time for media companies to #PassTheMic

Claire Wardle   Disinformation gets worse

Aron Pilhofer   We can’t leave the business to the business side any more

Neha Gandhi   Filler killers

Sarah Marshall   Loyalty as the key performance indicator

Emily Goligoski   Looking beyond news for inspiration

Umbreen Bhatti   The trust problem isn’t new

Caitlin Thompson   Podcasting models mature and diversify

AX Mina   Memes and visuals come to the fore

Brian Lam   Sketchy ethics around product reviews

Tracie Powell   The muting of underserved voices

Alfred Hermida   Going beyond mobile-first

Monique Judge   Letting black women tell their own stories

Marcela Donini and Thiago Herdy   Collaboration is the way forward for Brazilian journalism

Sue Schardt   Jump the niche

Gordon Crovitz   Serving readers over advertisers

Doris Truong   Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes

Lanre Akinola   Making noise is not a strategy

Nicholas Diakopoulos   Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity

Hannah Cassius   The year of the echo-chamber escapists

Andrew Haeg   The year journalists become relationship builders

Jarrod Dicker   Honesty in advertising