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.

Carlos Martínez de la Serna   The new journalism commons

Adam Thomas   Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor

Ariana Tobin   Too tired to tap

Hannah Cassius   The year of the echo-chamber escapists

Basile Simon   We need better career paths for news nerds

Niketa Patel   Live journalism comes of age

Elizabeth Jensen   Show your work

Alexios Mantzarlis   Moving fake news research out of the lab

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

Usha Sahay   Wallets get opened

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

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

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

P. Kim Bui   The reckoning is only beginning

Vanessa K. DeLuca   Women’s voices take center stage

Brian Lam   Sketchy ethics around product reviews

Craig Newmark   Working together toward sustainable solutions

Kim Fox   Audience teams diversify their approach

Andrew Haeg   The year journalists become relationship builders

Amy Webb   Listen to weak signals

Will Sommer   The year local media gets conservative

Zizi Papacharissi   Women come back

Mandy Velez   texting is lit rn, fam

Vivian Schiller   Pivot to tomorrow

Sue Schardt   Jump the niche

Ernst-Jan Pfauth   Publishing less to give readers more

Cindy Royal   Your journalism curriculum is obsolete

Cristina Wilson   The year of the Instagram Story

Jassim Ahmad   Thriving on change

Andrew Ramsammy   The year ownership mattered

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

Bill Keller   A growing turn to philanthropy

Doris Truong   Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes

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

Jennifer Coogan   The future is female

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

Mira Lowe   The year of the local watchdog

Pia Frey   Address users as individuals

Kyle Ellis   Let’s build our way out of this

Matt DeRienzo   A recession, then a collapse

Rick Berke   Value is the watchword

Nushin Rashidian   Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives

Corey Johnson   The pro-fact resistance

Mario García   Storytelling finally adapts to mobile

Tanya Cordrey   Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention

Hossein Derakhshan   Television has won

Rachel Davis Mersey   AI, with real smarts

Edward Roussel   Eyes, ears, and brains

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

Rachel Schallom   Better design helps differentiate opinion and news

Matt Carlson   Attacks on the press will get worse

Monika Bauerlein   The firehose of falsehood

Lanre Akinola   Making noise is not a strategy

Damon Krukowski   Reviving the alt-weekly soul

Eric Nuzum   Beyond the narrative arc

Sarah Marshall   Loyalty as the key performance indicator

Luke O'Neil   The end is already here

Mary Meehan   Real lives are at stake in rural areas

Daniel Trielli   The rich get richer, the poor scramble

Sally Lehrman   Trust comes first

Raju Narisetti   Mirror, mirror on the wall

Alice Antheaume   Are you fluent in AI?

Jennifer Choi   Standing up for us and for each other

Michelle Garcia   Navigating journalistic transparency

Julia Beizer   A longer view on the pivot

Kathleen McElroy   Building a news video experience native to mobile

Ray Soto   VR reaches the next level

Mi-Ai Parrish   Blockchain and trust

Laura E. Davis   Writing answers before you know the question

Tracie Powell   The muting of underserved voices

Matt Thompson   Here come the attention managers

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Seeking trust in fragmented spaces

Joyce Barnathan   It will be harder to bury the news

Yvonne Leow   The rise of video messaging

Michelle Ferrier   The year of the great reckoning

Mariano Blejman   News games rule

Sam Sanders   Shine the light on ourselves

Trushar Barot   The Jio-fication of India

Imaeyen Ibanga   Longform video leads the way

John Keefe   Scooped by AI

Kelsey Proud   No, no, no

Dan Newman   A return to trust

Marie Gilot   No assholes allowed

Nancy Watzman   Know thy TV

Neha Gandhi   Filler killers

Ståle Grut   Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks

Nicholas Diakopoulos   Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity

Mariana Moura Santos   Think local, act global

Alastair Coote   The year of self-improvement

Kinsey Wilson   Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up

Francesco Marconi   The year of machine-to-machine journalism

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

Dheerja Kaur   Fun with subscription products

Molly de Aguiar   Good journalism won’t be enough

Caitria O'Neill   The new court of public opinion

S. Mitra Kalita   The arc of news and audience

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

Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer   Skepticism and narcissism

Juliette De Maeyer   A responsible press criticism

Gordon Crovitz   Serving readers over advertisers

Feli Sánchez   The year for guerrilla user research

Emma Carew Grovum   Newsroom culture becomes a priority

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

Almar Latour   Conquering calm

Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán   The editorial meeting of the future

AX Mina   Memes and visuals come to the fore

Richard Tofel   The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention

Tamar Charney   We get serious about algorithms

Umbreen Bhatti   The trust problem isn’t new

Debra Adams Simmons   And a woman shall lead them

Pablo Boczkowski   The rise of skeptical reading

Sydette Harry   Listen to your corner and watch for the hook

Jessica Parker Gilbert   Design connects storytelling and strategy

Raney Aronson-Rath   Transparency is the antidote to fake news

Jacqui Cheng   Retailers move into content

Kristen Muller   The year of the voter

Claire Wardle   Disinformation gets worse

Joanne McNeil   Gatekeeping the gatekeepers

Jim Brady   With the people, not just of the people

Dannagal G. Young   Stop covering politics as a game

Matt Boggie   The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea

Nicholas Quah   Stop talking trash about young people

Steve Grove   The midterms are an opportunity

José Zamora   Revenue-first journalism

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

Borja Echevarría   TV goes digital, digital goes TV

Monique Judge   Letting black women tell their own stories

Kawandeep Virdee   Zines had it right all along

Amie Ferris-Rotman   More female reporters abroad (please)

David Skok   Finding an information-life balance

Sam Ford   The year of investing in processes

Taylor Lorenz   Social and media will split

Christopher Meighan   Passive partnership is in the rearview

Carrie Brown   Transparency finally takes off

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

Heather Bryant   Building the ecosystems for collaboration

Rubina Madan Fillion   Unlocking the potential of AI

Joanne Lipman   Journalists inventing revenue streams

Manoush Zomorodi   Self-help as a publishing strategy

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

Evie Nagy   Pivot to mobile video frustration

Amy King   Let’s amplify visual voice

Pete Brown   Push alerts, personalized

Rodney Gibbs   Tech workers turn to journalism

Frédéric Filloux   External forces

Nik Usher   The year of The Washington Post

Mike Caulfield   Refactoring media literacy for the networked age

Andrew Losowsky   The year of resilience

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

Miguel Castro   The arrival of the impact producer

Caitlin Thompson   Podcasting models mature and diversify

Lam Thuy Vo   Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest

Rodney Benson   Better, less read, and less trusted

Charo Henríquez   Training is an investment, not an expense

Federica Cherubini   The rise of bridge roles in news organizations

Alfred Hermida   Going beyond mobile-first

Paul Ford   Go global

Jared Newman   Venture funding and digital news don’t mix

Ruth Palmer   Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities

Nathalie Malinarich   Peak push

Corey Ford   The empire strikes back

Jamie Mottram   From pageviews to t-shirts

Renée Kaplan   The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)

Felix Salmon   Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin

Michael Kuntz   The only pivot that might work

Jake Levine   The return to now

Cory Haik   Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact

Burt Herman   Things get real

Justin Kosslyn   The year journalists become digital security experts

Lucas Graves   From algorithms to institutions

Jarrod Dicker   Honesty in advertising

Tim Carmody   Watch out for Spotify

Mary Walter-Brown   Show a little vulnerability

C.W. Anderson   The social media apocalypse

Emily Goligoski   Looking beyond news for inspiration

Juleyka Lantigua   Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time