Jump the niche

“The social web overtakes, exhausts, exhilarates, spreads, connects, reinforces, divides. Hashtag power. Deep in the niche, it’s easy to ignore those without time or equipment or mind space or care to be in the game.”

Smarts critique smarts who share with smarts who thumbs up or down or comments. Trump pro or con critiques Trump pro or con who shares with Trump pro or con who thumbs up or down or comments. Blue/Green/Red critiques Blue/Green/Red who shares with Blue/Green/Red who thumbs up or down or comments.

#metoo jumps the niche. Or does it?

The social web overtakes, exhausts, exhilarates, spreads, connects, reinforces, divides. Hashtag power. Deep in the niche, it’s easy to ignore those without time or equipment or mind space or care to be in the game.

Hello net neutrality! Goodbye!

What happens if we don’t trust The Social?

People eat together, pray, argue, dance, watch, listen. The physical space of community is an opening frontier where we will turn, more and more, to share and make our stories.

Sue Schardt is CEO of AIR.

Ruth Palmer   Risks will grow for news subjects — especially minorities

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

Michael Kuntz   The only pivot that might work

Justin Kosslyn   The year journalists become digital security experts

C.W. Anderson   The social media apocalypse

Will Sommer   The year local media gets conservative

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

Monique Judge   Letting black women tell their own stories

Corey Johnson   The pro-fact resistance

Matt Boggie   The intellectual equivalent of the Dead Sea

Vanessa K. DeLuca   Women’s voices take center stage

Felix Salmon   Covering bitcoin while owning bitcoin

Sam Sanders   Shine the light on ourselves

Joyce Barnathan   It will be harder to bury the news

Rachel Davis Mersey   AI, with real smarts

Ernst-Jan Pfauth   Publishing less to give readers more

Adam Thomas   Sharing is caring: The year of the mentor

Nikki Usher   The year of The Washington Post

Marie Gilot   No assholes allowed

José Zamora   Revenue-first journalism

Raney Aronson-Rath   Transparency is the antidote to fake news

Jennifer Choi   Standing up for us and for each other

Pablo Boczkowski   The rise of skeptical reading

Eric Nuzum   Beyond the narrative arc

Nathalie Malinarich   Peak push

Mariano Blejman   News games rule

Umbreen Bhatti   The trust problem isn’t new

Gordon Crovitz   Serving readers over advertisers

Ray Soto   VR reaches the next level

Caitlin Thompson   Podcasting models mature and diversify

Jamie Mottram   From pageviews to t-shirts

Amie Ferris-Rotman   More female reporters abroad (please)

Emma Carew Grovum   Newsroom culture becomes a priority

AX Mina   Memes and visuals come to the fore

Cindy Royal   Your journalism curriculum is obsolete

Imaeyen Ibanga   Longform video leads the way

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

Mario García   Storytelling finally adapts to mobile

Kristen Muller   The year of the voter

John Keefe   Scooped by AI

Jacqui Cheng   Retailers move into content

Alice Antheaume   Are you fluent in AI?

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

Andrew Losowsky   The year of resilience

Raju Narisetti   Mirror, mirror on the wall

Kyle Ellis   Let’s build our way out of this

Nancy Watzman   Know thy TV

Kinsey Wilson   Facebook and Google: Help out or pay up

Mi-Ai Parrish   Blockchain and trust

Jared Newman   Venture funding and digital news don’t mix

Tamar Charney   We get serious about algorithms

Sue Schardt   Jump the niche

Evie Nagy   Pivot to mobile video frustration

Christopher Meighan   Passive partnership is in the rearview

Borja Echevarría   TV goes digital, digital goes TV

Ariana Tobin   Too tired to tap

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

Alfred Hermida   Going beyond mobile-first

Paul Ford   Go global

Niketa Patel   Live journalism comes of age

Hannah Cassius   The year of the echo-chamber escapists

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

Andrew Ramsammy   The year ownership mattered

Amy Webb   Listen to weak signals

Taylor Lorenz   Social and media will split

Joanne Lipman   Journalists inventing revenue streams

Heather Bryant   Building the ecosystems for collaboration

Mandy Velez   texting is lit rn, fam

Jassim Ahmad   Thriving on change

Miguel Castro   The arrival of the impact producer

Kawandeep Virdee   Zines had it right all along

Sarah Marshall   Loyalty as the key performance indicator

Betsy O'Donovan and Melody Kramer   Skepticism and narcissism

Caitria O'Neill   The new court of public opinion

Matt Thompson   Here come the attention managers

Mariana Moura Santos   Think local, act global

Nicholas Diakopoulos   Fortifying social media from automated inauthenticity

Dheerja Kaur   Fun with subscription products

Michelle Garcia   Navigating journalistic transparency

Debra Adams Simmons   And a woman shall lead them

Corey Ford   The empire strikes back

Cristina Wilson   The year of the Instagram Story

Matt DeRienzo   A recession, then a collapse

Bill Keller   A growing turn to philanthropy

Frédéric Filloux   External forces

Renée Kaplan   The year of quiet adjustments (shhh)

Lam Thuy Vo   Breaking free from the tyranny of the loudest

Mary Meehan   Real lives are at stake in rural areas

Kathleen McElroy   Building a news video experience native to mobile

Emily Goligoski   Looking beyond news for inspiration

Manoush Zomorodi   Self-help as a publishing strategy

Basile Simon   We need better career paths for news nerds

Mike Caulfield   Refactoring media literacy for the networked age

Joanne McNeil   Gatekeeping the gatekeepers

Jennifer Coogan   The future is female

Vivian Schiller   Pivot to tomorrow

Luke O'Neil   The end is already here

Nicholas Quah   Stop talking trash about young people

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

Kelsey Proud   No, no, no

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

Edward Roussel   Eyes, ears, and brains

Hossein Derakhshan   Television has won

Kim Fox   Audience teams diversify their approach

Richard Tofel   The platforms’ power demands more reporters’ attention

Doris Truong   Computer vision vs. the Internet vigilantes

Jarrod Dicker   Honesty in advertising

Zizi Papacharissi   Women come back

Neha Gandhi   Filler killers

Julia Beizer   A longer view on the pivot

Juliette De Maeyer   A responsible press criticism

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

Daniel Trielli   The rich get richer, the poor scramble

Dannagal G. Young   Stop covering politics as a game

Lucas Graves   From algorithms to institutions

David Skok   Finding an information-life balance

Tanya Cordrey   Finally, the seeds of radical reinvention

Francesco Marconi   The year of machine-to-machine journalism

Elizabeth Jensen   Show your work

Laura E. Davis   Writing answers before you know the question

Alexios Mantzarlis   Moving fake news research out of the lab

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

Cory Haik   Suffering from realness, pivoting to impact

Tim Carmody   Watch out for Spotify

Mira Lowe   The year of the local watchdog

Charo Henríquez   Training is an investment, not an expense

Carrie Brown-Smith   Transparency finally takes off

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

Damon Krukowski   Reviving the alt-weekly soul

Rubina Madan Fillion   Unlocking the potential of AI

Juleyka Lantigua   Women of color will reclaim and monetize our time

Feli Sánchez   The year for guerrilla user research

Burt Herman   Things get real

Monika Bauerlein   The firehose of falsehood

Nushin Rashidian   Publishers seek ad dollar alternatives

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

Alastair Coote   The year of self-improvement

P. Kim Bui   The reckoning is only beginning

Matt Carlson   Attacks on the press will get worse

Jim Brady   With the people, not just of the people

Brian Lam   Sketchy ethics around product reviews

Andrew Haeg   The year journalists become relationship builders

Carlos Martínez de la Serna   The new journalism commons

Rodney Gibbs   Tech workers turn to journalism

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

Craig Newmark   Working together toward sustainable solutions

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon   Seeking trust in fragmented spaces

Mary Walter-Brown   Show a little vulnerability

Michelle Ferrier   The year of the great reckoning

Steve Grove   The midterms are an opportunity

Sydette Harry   Listen to your corner and watch for the hook

Ståle Grut   Reclaiming audience interaction from social networks

Tracie Powell   The muting of underserved voices

Claire Wardle   Disinformation gets worse

Jennifer Brandel and Mónica Guzmán   The editorial meeting of the future

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

Pia Frey   Address users as individuals

Molly de Aguiar   Good journalism won’t be enough

Pete Brown   Push alerts, personalized

Trushar Barot   The Jio-fication of India

Rachel Schallom   Better design helps differentiate opinion and news

S. Mitra Kalita   The arc of news and audience

Jake Levine   The return to now

Amy King   Let’s amplify visual voice

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

Dan Newman   A return to trust

Sally Lehrman   Trust comes first

Rodney Benson   Better, less read, and less trusted

Almar Latour   Conquering calm

Sam Ford   The year of investing in processes

Yvonne Leow   The rise of video messaging

Jessica Parker Gilbert   Design connects storytelling and strategy

Usha Sahay   Wallets get opened

Lanre Akinola   Making noise is not a strategy

Rick Berke   Value is the watchword

Federica Cherubini   The rise of bridge roles in news organizations