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