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#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
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Cindy Royal Your journalism curriculum is obsolete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
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
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
Evie Nagy Pivot to mobile video frustration
Christopher Meighan Passive partnership is in the rearview
Borja Echevarría TV goes digital, digital goes TV
Jesse Holcomb Information disorder, coming to a congressional district near you
Alfred Hermida Going beyond mobile-first
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)
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
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
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
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
Amy King Let’s amplify visual voice
Alan Soon The rise of start of psychographic, micro-targeted media
Sally Lehrman Trust comes first
Rodney Benson Better, less read, and less trusted
Sam Ford The year of investing in processes
Yvonne Leow The rise of video messaging
Jessica Parker Gilbert Design connects storytelling and strategy
Lanre Akinola Making noise is not a strategy
Rick Berke Value is the watchword
Federica Cherubini The rise of bridge roles in news organizations