Marie Gilot is the director of J+ at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
Whitney Phillips A time to question core beliefs
Meredith Artley Stronger solidarity among news organizations
Meg Marco Everything happens somewhere
Julia B. Chan We 👏 take 👏 breaks 👏
Alexandra Borchardt Get out of the office and talk to people
Juleyka Lantigua A changing industry amps up podcasters’ ambitions
Emily Withrow The year we kill the news article
Jakob Moll A slow-moving tech backlash among young people
Beena Raghavendran The year of the local engagement reporter
Eric Nuzum Podcasting finally creates another mega-hit show
Tanya Cordrey Saying no to more good ideas
Jeremy Gilbert and Jarrod Dicker A call for collaboration between storytelling and tech
Greg Emerson News apps fall further behind
Cindy Royal Prepare media students for skills, not job titles
Mary Walter-Brown and Tristan Loper Power to the people (on your audience team)
Joe Amditis Collaborative journalism takes its rightful place at the table
Brenda P. Salinas Treating MP3 files like text
Mariana Moura Santos The future of journalism is collaborative
Lucas Graves A smarter conversation about how (and why) fact-checking matters
Margarita Noriega The platforms try to figure out what to do with single-subject newsrooms
Geneva Overholser Death to bothsidesism
Elizabeth Dunbar Frank talk, and then action
AX Mina The Forum we wanted, the forum we got
Errin Haines Race and gender aren’t a 2020 story — they’re the story
Helen Havlak Platforms shine a light on original reporting
J. Siguru Wahutu Western journalists, learn from your African peers
Nathalie Malinarich Betting on loyalty
Tamar Charney From broadcast to bespoke
Dan Shanoff Sports media enters the Bronny era
Victor Pickard We reclaim a public good
Bill Grueskin Our ethics codes get an overhaul
Jeff Kofman Speed through technology
Imaeyen Ibanga Let’s take it slow
Ståle Grut OSINT journalism goes mainstream
Nushin Rashidian Are platforms a bridge or a lifeline?
John Garrett It’s the best time in a century to start a local news organization
Heather Bryant Some kinds of journalism aren’t worth saving
Matthew Pressman News consumers divide into haves and have-nots
Jennifer Brandel A love letter from the year 2073
Laura E. Davis Know the context your journalism is operating within
Knight Foundation Five generations of journalists, learning from each other
Matt DeRienzo Local broadcasters begin to fill the gaps left by newspapers
Tom Glaisyer Journalism can emerge newly vibrant and powerful
Logan Jaffe You don’t need fancy tools to listen
Alice Antheaume Trade “politics” for “power”
Heidi Tworek The year of positive pushback
Christa Scharfenberg It’s time to make journalism a field that supports and respects women
M. Scott Havens First-party data becomes media’s most important currency
Kourtney Bitterly Transparency isn’t just a desire, it’s an expectation
Carrie Brown-Smith Engaged journalism: It’s finally happening
Dannagal G. Young Let’s disrupt the logic that’s driving Americans apart
Hossein Derakhshan AI can’t conjure up an Errol Morris
Sarah Marshall The year to learn about news moments
Sonali Prasad Climate change storytelling gets multidimensional
Fiona Spruill The climate crisis gets the coverage it deserves
Kevin D. Grant The free press stands against authoritarians’ attacks on truth
Peter Bale Lies get further normalized
Mike Caulfield Native verification tools for the blue checkmark crowd
Sue Robinson Campaign coverage as test bed for engagement experiments
Monique Judge The year to organize, unionize, and fight
Madelyn Sanfilippo and Yafit Lev-Aretz News coverage gets geo-fragmented
Don Day Respect the non-paying audience
Nico Gendron Make better products if you want to reach Gen Z
Bill Adair A Nobel Prize, a Brad Pitt film, and a Taylor Swift song
Seth C. Lewis 20 questions for 2020
Rachel Glickhouse Journalists get left behind in the industry’s decline
Linda Solomon Wood Everyone in your organization, moving toward a common goal
Steve Henn The dawning audio web
Carl Bialik Journalists will try running the whole shop
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen The business we want, not the business we had
Anthony Nadler Clash of Clans: Election Edition
Sarah Schmalbach Journalist, quantify thyself
Lauren Duca The rise of the journalistic influencer
A.J. Bauer A fork in the road for conservative media
Kristen Muller The year we operationalize community engagement
Joshua P. Darr All that campaign cash will make the media’s problems worse
Mario García Think small (screen)
Sarah Alvarez I’m ready for post-news
Alana Levinson Brand-backed media gets another look
Kathleen Searles Pay more attention to attention
Zizi Papacharissi A president leads, the press follows, reality fades
Irving Washington Leadership isn’t something you learn on the job
Nicholas Jackson What’s left of local gets comfortable with reader support
Barbara Gray Join local libraries on the frontlines of civic engagement
Raney Aronson-Rath News deserts will proliferate — but so will new solutions
Richard Tofel A constraint of the reader-revenue model emerges
Cristina Kim Public media stops trying to serve “everybody”
Brian Moritz The end of “stick to sports”
Felix Salmon Spotify launches a news channel
Rick Berke Incoming fire from both left and right
Mira Lowe The year of student-powered journalism
Logan Molyneux and Shannon McGregor Think twice before turning to Twitter
Josh Schwartz Publishers move beyond the metered paywall
S. Mitra Kalita The race to 2021
Jake Shapiro Podcasting gets listener relationship management
Kerri Hoffman Opening closed systems
Gordon Crovitz Fighting misinformation requires journalism, not secret algorithms
Colleen Shalby Journalists become media literacy teachers
Sara K. Baranowski A big year for little newspapers
Alfred Hermida and Mary Lynn Young The promise of nonprofit journalism
Simon Galperin Journalism becomes more democratic
Jonas Kaiser Russian bots are just today’s slacktivists
Annie Rudd The expanded ambiguity of the news photograph
Catalina Albeanu Rebuilding journalism, together
Moreno Cruz Osório In Brazil, collaboration in a time of state attacks
Talia Stroud The work of reconnecting starts November 4
Stefanie Murray Charitable giving goes collaborative
Craig Newmark Formalizing newsrooms’ battle against disinformation
Rachel Davis Mersey The business of local TV news will enter its downward slide
Rachel Schallom The value of push alerts goes beyond open rates
Joanne McNeil A return to blogs (finally? sort of?)
Francesco Zaffarano TikTok without generational prejudice
Tonya Mosley The neutrality vs. objectivity game ends
Cory Haik We’re already consuming the future of news — now we have to produce it
Monica Drake A renewed focus on misinformation
Joni Deutsch Podcasting unsilences the silent
Jim Brady We’ll complain about other people living in bubbles while ignoring our own
Pablo Boczkowski The day after November 4
Candis Callison Taking a cue from Indigenous journalists on climate change
Masuma Ahuja Slower, quieter, more measured and thoughtful
John Keefe Journalism gets hacked
Elizabeth Hansen and Jesse Holcomb Local news initiatives run into a capital shortage
Doris Truong The year of radical salary transparency
Sarah Stonbely More people start caring about news inequality
Michael W. Wagner Increasingly fractured, but little bit deliberative
Jasmine McNealy A call for context
Jeremy Olshan All journalism should be service journalism
