Zines had it right all along

“Zines have an enormous variety. They’re experimental and diverse. This gives them a freshness and surprise. They’re anti-formalist. They’re relatable.”

Kawandeep Virdee works on product at Medium.

Rachel Schallom   Better design helps differentiate opinion and news

Mi-Ai Parrish   Blockchain and trust

Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán   The editorial meeting of the future

Kinsey Wilson   Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up

Feli Sánchez   The year for guerrilla user research

Elizabeth Jensen   Show your work

Amy King   Let’s amplify visual voice

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

Hannah Cassius   The year of the echo-chamber escapists

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

Raney Aronson-Rath   Transparency is the antidote to fake news

Monique Judge   Letting black women tell their own stories

Rodney Benson   Better, less read, and less trusted

Nicholas Diakopoulos   Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity

Basile Simon   We need better career paths for news nerds

Yvonne Leow   The rise of video messaging

Juleyka Lantigua   Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time

Lucas Graves   From algorithms to institutions

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

Pia Frey   Address users as individuals

Claire Wardle   Disinformation gets worse

Alastair Coote   The year of self-improvement

Jake Levine   The return to now

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

Cory Haik   Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact

Sally Lehrman   Trust comes first

Amy Webb   Listen to weak signals

Corey Johnson   The pro-fact resistance

David Skok   Finding an information-life balance

Almar Latour   Conquering calm

Molly de Aguiar   Good journalism won’t be enough

Kathleen McElroy   Building a news video experience native to mobile

Jacqui Cheng   Retailers move into content

Sue Schardt   Jump the niche

Tracie Powell   The muting of underserved voices

Bill Keller   A growing turn to philanthropy

Mike Caulfield   Refactoring media literacy for the networked age

Dan Newman   A return to trust

Mira Lowe   The year of the local watchdog

Rodney Gibbs   Tech workers turn to journalism

Imaeyen Ibanga   Longform video leads the way

José Zamora   Revenue-first journalism

Emma Carew Grovum   Newsroom culture becomes a priority

S. Mitra Kalita   The arc of news and audience

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

Craig Newmark   Working together toward sustainable solutions

Nathalie Malinarich   Peak push

Richard Tofel   The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention

Ernst-Jan Pfauth   Publishing less to give readers more

Alice Antheaume   Are you fluent in AI?

Alexios Mantzarlis   Moving fake news research out of the lab

Pablo Boczkowski   The rise of skeptical reading

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

Jennifer Coogan   The future is female

Michelle Ferrier   The year of the great reckoning

Adam Thomas   Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor

AX Mina   Memes and visuals come to the fore

Carrie Brown-Smith   Transparency finally takes off

Usha Sahay   Wallets get opened

Cristina Wilson   The year of the Instagram Story

Joanne McNeil   Gatekeeping the gatekeepers

Lam Thuy Vo   Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest

Damon Krukowski   Reviving the alt-weekly soul

Charo Henríquez   Training is an investment, not an expense

Frédéric Filloux   External forces

Nikki Usher   The year of The Washington Post

Caitlin Thompson   Podcasting models mature and diversify

Felix Salmon   Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin

Eric Nuzum   Beyond the narrative arc

Heather Bryant   Building the ecosystems for collaboration

Ray Soto   VR reaches the next level

John Keefe   Scooped by AI

Hossein Derakhshan   Television has won

P. Kim Bui   The reckoning is only beginning

Evie Nagy   Pivot to mobile video frustration

Mary Meehan   Real lives are at stake in rural areas

Tamar Charney   We get serious about algorithms

Renée Kaplan   The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)

Carlos Martínez de la Serna   The new journalism commons

Manoush Zomorodi   Self-help as a publishing strategy

Gordon Crovitz   Serving readers over advertisers

Nancy Watzman   Know thy TV

Steve Grove   The midterms are an opportunity

Mary Walter-Brown   Show a little vulnerability

Mariano Blejman   News games rule

Matt Carlson   Attacks on the press will get worse

Andrew Ramsammy   The year ownership mattered

Jamie Mottram   From pageviews to t-shirts

Dannagal G. Young   Stop covering politics as a game

Christopher Meighan   Passive partnership is in the rearview

Taylor Lorenz   Social and media will split

Caitria O'Neill   The new court of public opinion

Neha Gandhi   Filler killers

Laura E. Davis   Writing answers before you know the question

Jarrod Dicker   Honesty in advertising

Vanessa K. DeLuca   Women’s voices take center stage

Doris Truong   Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes

Paul Ford   Go global

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

Jared Newman   Venture funding and digital news don’t mix

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

Michelle Garcia   Navigating journalistic transparency

Trushar Barot   The Jio-fication of India

Lanre Akinola   Making noise is not a strategy

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

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

Miguel Castro   The arrival of the impact producer

Jim Brady   With the people, not just of the people

Raju Narisetti   Mirror, mirror on the wall

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

Federica Cherubini   The rise of bridge roles in news organizations

Tim Carmody   Watch out for Spotify

Sam Sanders   Shine the light on ourselves

Kawandeep Virdee   Zines had it right all along

Cindy Royal   Your journalism curriculum is obsolete

Zizi Papacharissi   Women come back

Tanya Cordrey   Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention

Mandy Velez   texting is lit rn, fam

Rubina Madan Fillion   Unlocking the potential of AI

Borja Echevarría   TV goes digital, digital goes TV

Matt DeRienzo   A recession, then a collapse

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

Brian Lam   Sketchy ethics around product reviews

Emily Goligoski   Looking beyond news for inspiration

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

Vivian Schiller   Pivot to tomorrow

Kelsey Proud   No, no, no

Sam Ford   The year of investing in processes

Pete Brown   Push alerts, personalized

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

Andrew Haeg   The year journalists become relationship builders

Justin Kosslyn   The year journalists become digital security experts

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Seeking trust in fragmented spaces

Ariana Tobin   Too tired to tap

Kyle Ellis   Let’s build our way out of this

Will Sommer   The year local media gets conservative

Umbreen Bhatti   The trust problem isn’t new

Ruth Palmer   Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities

Mariana Moura Santos   Think local, act global

Matt Boggie   The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea

Jennifer Choi   Standing up for us and for each other

Niketa Patel   Live journalism comes of age

Joyce Barnathan   It will be harder to bury the news

Nicholas Quah   Stop talking trash about young people

Rick Berke   Value is the watchword

Kristen Muller   The year of the voter

Alfred Hermida   Going beyond mobile-first

Juliette De Maeyer   A responsible press criticism

Sydette Harry   Listen to your corner and watch for the hook

Daniel Trielli   The rich get richer, the poor scramble

Corey Ford   The empire strikes back

Sarah Marshall   Loyalty as the key performance indicator

Jassim Ahmad   Thriving on change

Luke O'Neil   The end is already here

Edward Roussel   Eyes, ears, and brains

Marie Gilot   No assholes allowed

Michael Kuntz   The only pivot that might work

Andrew Losowsky   The year of resilience

Rachel Davis Mersey   AI, with real smarts

Jessica Parker Gilbert   Design connects storytelling and strategy

Ståle Grut   Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks

Joanne Lipman   Journalists inventing revenue streams

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

C.W. Anderson   The social media apocalypse

Amie Ferris-Rotman   More female reporters abroad (please)

Francesco Marconi   The year of machine-to-machine journalism

Nushin Rashidian   Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives

Julia Beizer   A longer view on the pivot

Dheerja Kaur   Fun with subscription products

Mario García   Storytelling finally adapts to mobile

Matt Thompson   Here come the attention managers

Burt Herman   Things get real

Debra Adams Simmons   And a woman shall lead them

Monika Bauerlein   The firehose of falsehood

Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer   Skepticism and narcissism

Kim Fox   Audience teams diversify their approach