In 2018, more nonprofit newsrooms will be launched than North Korean test missiles. As Facebook and Google suck up the ad revenues and all but a handful of media companies find digital subscriptions a hard sell, more and more will turn to philanthropy — foundations and the people I’ve learned to refer to as High Net Worth Individuals. (Even The New York Times is building a nonprofit arm in pursuit of foundation money.) One interesting thing to watch is whether new wealth (meaning especially tech wealth) will overcome its wariness of independent news media.
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Francesco Marconi The year of machine-to-machine journalism
Juleyka Lantigua Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time
Amie Ferris-Rotman More female reporters abroad (please)
Sally Lehrman Trust comes first
Federica Cherubini The rise of bridge roles in news organizations
Andrew Ramsammy The year ownership mattered
Tim Carmody Watch out for Spotify
Rachel Davis Mersey AI, with real smarts
Jennifer Coogan The future is female
Damon Krukowski Reviving the alt-weekly soul
Tamar Charney We get serious about algorithms
Joyce Barnathan It will be harder to bury the news
Jarrod Dicker Honesty in advertising
Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer Skepticism and narcissism
Sam Sanders Shine the light on ourselves
Feli Sánchez The year for guerrilla user research
Laura E. Davis Writing answers before you know the question
Julia B. Chan Looking for loyalty in all the right places
Justin Kosslyn The year journalists become digital security experts
Renée Kaplan The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)
Matt Boggie The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea
Raney Aronson-Rath Transparency is the antidote to fake news
Emma Carew Grovum Newsroom culture becomes a priority
Hossein Derakhshan Television has won
Andrew Haeg The year journalists become relationship builders
Alice Antheaume Are you fluent in AI?
Debra Adams Simmons And a woman shall lead them
Nicholas Quah Stop talking trash about young people
Christopher Meighan Passive partnership is in the rearview
Mike Caulfield Refactoring media literacy for the networked age
Sarah Marshall Loyalty as the key performance indicator
Eric Nuzum Beyond the narrative arc
Matt Thompson Here come the attention managers
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen The Snapchat scenario and the risk of more closed platforms
Felix Salmon Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin
Mi-Ai Parrish Blockchain and trust
Heather Bryant Building the ecosystems for collaboration
Marie Gilot No assholes allowed
Dan Shanoff You down with OTT? (Yeah, DTC)
Jim Moroney Newspapers have to be good enough for readers to pay for
Jared Newman Venture funding and digital news don’t mix
Lam Thuy Vo Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest
Manoush Zomorodi Self-help as a publishing strategy
Yvonne Leow The rise of video messaging
Amy Webb Listen to weak signals
Elizabeth Jensen Show your work
Errin Haines At the ballot, it’s time to count black women
Rodney Gibbs Tech workers turn to journalism
Mariano Blejman News games rule
Kathleen McElroy Building a news video experience native to mobile
Jim Brady With the people, not just of the people
Michelle Garcia Navigating journalistic transparency
Frédéric Filloux External forces
P. Kim Bui The reckoning is only beginning
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon Seeking trust in fragmented spaces
Dheerja Kaur Fun with subscription products
Alastair Coote The year of self-improvement
Raju Narisetti Mirror, mirror on the wall
Basile Simon We need better career paths for news nerds
Pablo Boczkowski The rise of skeptical reading
Rick Berke Value is the watchword
Caitria O'Neill The new court of public opinion
Susie Banikarim R.I.P. Pivot to Video (2017–2017)
Rachel Schallom Better design helps differentiate opinion and news
Mandy Velez texting is lit rn, fam
Will Sommer The year local media gets conservative
Monique Judge Letting black women tell their own stories
Trushar Barot The Jio-fication of India
C.W. Anderson The social media apocalypse
Gordon Crovitz Serving readers over advertisers
Kawandeep Virdee Zines had it right all along
Cristina Wilson The year of the Instagram Story
Helen Havlak Keywords, not publishers, power the world’s biggest feeds
Nicholas Diakopoulos Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity
Carrie Brown-Smith Transparency finally takes off
Jesse Holcomb Information disorder, coming to a congressional district near you
Nushin Rashidian Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives
Lucas Graves From algorithms to institutions
Nikki Usher The year of The Washington Post
Richard Tofel The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention
Kristen Muller The year of the voter
Pete Brown Push alerts, personalized
Tanya Cordrey Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention
Alan Soon The rise of start of psychographic, micro-targeted media
Imaeyen Ibanga Longform video leads the way
Steve Grove The midterms are an opportunity
José Zamora Revenue-first journalism
Marcela Donini and Thiago Herdy Collaboration is the way forward for Brazilian journalism
Doris Truong Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes
Mariana Moura Santos Think local, act global
Kinsey Wilson Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up
Amy King Let’s amplify visual voice
Cory Haik Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact
S. Mitra Kalita The arc of news and audience
Jamie Mottram From pageviews to t-shirts
Ernst-Jan Pfauth Publishing less to give readers more
Joanne Lipman Journalists inventing revenue streams
Adam Thomas Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor
Rubina Madan Fillion Unlocking the potential of AI
Brian Lam Sketchy ethics around product reviews
Monika Bauerlein The firehose of falsehood
Tracie Powell The muting of underserved voices
Hannah Cassius The year of the echo-chamber escapists
Joanne McNeil Gatekeeping the gatekeepers
David Skok Finding an information-life balance
Cindy Royal Your journalism curriculum is obsolete
Matt DeRienzo A recession, then a collapse
Evie Nagy Pivot to mobile video frustration
Niketa Patel Live journalism comes of age
Matt Carlson Attacks on the press will get worse
Corey Ford The empire strikes back
Eric Ulken The year local publishers get smart(er) about change
Corey Johnson The pro-fact resistance
Ruth Palmer Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities
Luke O'Neil The end is already here
Julia Beizer A longer view on the pivot
Charo Henríquez Training is an investment, not an expense
Alexios Mantzarlis Moving fake news research out of the lab
Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán The editorial meeting of the future
Michael Kuntz The only pivot that might work
Jennifer Choi Standing up for us and for each other
Rodney Benson Better, less read, and less trusted
Taylor Lorenz Social and media will split
Mary Walter-Brown Show a little vulnerability
Caitlin Thompson Podcasting models mature and diversify
Vanessa K. DeLuca Women’s voices take center stage
Mary Meehan Real lives are at stake in rural areas
Edward Roussel Eyes, ears, and brains
Craig Newmark Working together toward sustainable solutions
Jessica Parker Gilbert Design connects storytelling and strategy
Sydette Harry Listen to your corner and watch for the hook
Lanre Akinola Making noise is not a strategy
Claire Wardle Disinformation gets worse
Sam Ford The year of investing in processes
Miguel Castro The arrival of the impact producer
Alfred Hermida Going beyond mobile-first
Sara M. Watson Feeds will open up to new user-determined filters
Millie Tran and Stine Bauer Dahlberg (Hint: It’s about your brand)
AX Mina Memes and visuals come to the fore
Emily Goligoski Looking beyond news for inspiration
Ståle Grut Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks
Vivian Schiller Pivot to tomorrow
Mario García Storytelling finally adapts to mobile
Molly de Aguiar Good journalism won’t be enough
Aron Pilhofer We can’t leave the business to the business side any more
Kim Fox Audience teams diversify their approach
Tanzina Vega It’s time for media companies to #PassTheMic
Ray Soto VR reaches the next level
Zizi Papacharissi Women come back
Borja Echevarría TV goes digital, digital goes TV
Daniel Trielli The rich get richer, the poor scramble
Andrew Losowsky The year of resilience
Umbreen Bhatti The trust problem isn’t new
Kyle Ellis Let’s build our way out of this
Michelle Ferrier The year of the great reckoning
Bill Keller A growing turn to philanthropy
Pia Frey Address users as individuals
Carlos Martínez de la Serna The new journalism commons
Dannagal G. Young Stop covering politics as a game