CHRISTA SCHARFENBERG AND VICKIE BARANETSKY
Journalism — our freedom to report, the tools we use to unearth hidden information, and efforts to stop the guardians of the truth — will be increasingly defined by the courts.
In the last year the judiciary has made a handful of defining decisions about the relationship between government and media. The courts have decided whether President Trump can remove a reporter’s press pass, if a court can issue a prior restraint on the LA Times, and whether the President’s blocked tweets occurred in a public forum. Another case required the government to release its rules for surveilling journalists.
Here at The Center for Investigative Reporting, we have been battling our own lawsuit after Philadelphia city officials denied our application for advertising on the local public transportation system, claiming the ads were political speech.
ALEXIS LLOYD & MATT BOGGIE The year product leads media
SIMON GALPERIN After capitalism’s fire, journalism’s secondary succession
ERNIE SMITH The year we step back from the platform
JONATHAN STRAY More algorithmic accountability reporting, and a lot of it will be meh
TAMAR CHARNEY Seriously: What do you do for people?
KELSEY PROUD Journalism becomes the escape
BRIAN MORITZ The subscription-pocalypse is about to hit
NICO GENDRON Reaching Generation Z beyond the coasts
WHITNEY PHILLIPS Our information systems aren’t broken — they’re working as intended
CRAIG NEWMARK The end of “loudspeakers for liars”
SIMON ROGERS Data journalism becomes a global field
JESSE BROWN Canada’s subsidy for news backfires
CHASE DAVIS We can acknowledge what we don’t know
ELIZABETH JENSEN Going where the Acela can’t take you
JESSE HOLCOMB We’ll get better at making the case for local journalism
KAWANDEEP VIRDEE Media wants to take care of you
LATOYA DRAKE Listen up: New stories, new storytellers
VICTOR PICKARD We will finally confront systemic market failure
REYHAN HARMANCI Selling more stories to Hollywood
CARL BIALIK Fatigued news consumers will pay more for less news
COLLEEN SHALBY Representation becomes more than a talking point
TYLER FISHER This is journalism’s do-or-die moment
SOO OH Just showing our work isn’t enough
ALEXANDRA SVOKOS Good luck convincing us millennials to pay
NATHALIE MALINARICH Video — yes, video
CHRISTA SCHARFENBERG AND VICKIE BARANETSKY The year of the lawsuit
MICHAEL RAIN The year of the culturally relevant curator
CINDY ROYAL For journalism curriculum to change, its faculty needs disruption
AXIE NAVAS The traffic hunt, CMS battle, and magazine identity crises loom
EMMA CAREW GROVUM The year of the loyal reader
TSHEPO TSHABALALA Ahead of African elections, unlock partnerships with fact-checkers
JOANNE MCNEIL Building a digital hospice
GREG EMERSON Power to the user
PATRICK BUTLER Measuring impact will increase audience trust
RACHEL GLICKHOUSE Newsrooms will prioritize audience needs
MATT KAROLIAN Publishers come to terms with being Facebook’s enablers
JOHN BIEWEN Podcasts keep getting better
MATT SKIBINSKI Quality and reliability are the new currencies for publishers
HOSSEIN DERAKHSHAN The news is dying, but journalism will not — and should not
JOSH SCHWARTZ A pullback from platforms and a focus on product
JAMES WAHUTU Think 2018 was bad? Wait until you see 2019
MILLIE TRAN There is no magic — you’ve got this
ELVA RAMIREZ News — but make it cinematic
BORJA BERGARECHE SAINZ DE LOS TERREROS Entering a more balanced era
RENÉE KAPLAN Our future could lie within our own organizations
JOHN SAROFF The pivot to reader revenue’s unintended consequences
ADAM B. ELLICK Video forensic reporting goes mainstream — and local
DHEERJA KAUR A focus on problems, not platforms
SARAH ALVAREZ Simplify and redistribute
ERIC ULKEN The year you actually start to like your CMS
JOSHUA DARR The nationalization of political news will accelerate
JACK RILEY Facebook refugees, from ad revenue to news habits
MAT YUROW Content competition from the tech companies
TALIA STROUD Engaging people across lines of difference
JEAN FRIEDMAN RUDOVSKY Cross-newsroom collaborations strengthen communities
PETER BALE Venture capital runs out of patience
MARIO GARCÍA The rise of content “pilots”
NIKKI USHER Three ways national media will further undermine trust
BETSY O’DONOVAN AND MELODY KRAMER The most beautiful sentence in 2019 is “No.”
JENÉE DESMOND-HARRIS It finally sinks in that some people aren’t white
MANOUSH ZOMORODI Tech will do for information overload what it did for mindfulness
HEATHER CHAPLIN Agree we’re partisan — for the democratic system
AMY KING We should listen to the kids (especially on Instagram)
ALEXANDRA BORCHARDT Newsrooms need to build trust with their journalists, not just the audience
TUSHAR BANERJEE Interactive ads will be the new face of display advertising
REBECCA SEARLES From silos to Swiss Army knife teams
RICK BERKE The year of loyalty
CAROLINA GUERRERO Spanish-language audio blows up
CHARO HENRÍQUEZ Pivot to journalism
MANDY JENKINS Fight the urge to run away from social media
ALYSSA ZEISLER We expand what (and how and who) we serve
JOEL KONOPO Influencers become the new liberated power in Africa
JULIE POSETTI The year of the fight back
DARRYL HOLLIDAY Let’s talk about power (yours)
ZAINAB KHAN Publishers whose products can stand up to social media giants will win
AMY SCHMITZ WEISS Local news isn’t where you thought it was
MARIE SHANAHAN Newsrooms take the comments sections back from platforms
REBECCA LEE SANCHEZ We are all actors in the running rampant of political theater
BEN SMITH The pendulum starts to swing back
ROBIN KWONG Tech shouldn’t be the only field pollinating “news nerds”
KRISTEN MULLER Local news fails — in a good way
RUTH PALMER AND BENJAMIN TOFF From news fatigue to news avoidance
NICHOLAS JACKSON More transparency around newsroom decisions
DAN SHANOFF Bet on sports gambling
JARED NEWMAN AI-generated fakes launch a software arms race
MIKE RISPOLI AND CRAIG AARON Government funds local news — and that’s a good thing
GEETIKA RUDRA The year of actionable (local) journalism
EFRAT NECHUSHTAI Journalism wants to be your friend, not your teacher
JAKE SHAPIRO Podcasting is media’s slow food movement
ERRIN HAINES WHACK Say it with me: Racism
RUBINA MADAN FILLION Fighting the reality of deepfakes
SETH C. LEWIS The gap between journalism and research is too wide
KEVIN DOUGLAS GRANT A year to embrace journalism as public service
BILL GRUESKIN Toward a symphony model for local news
ANDREW DONOHUE Voting rights becomes the new climate change
HEATHER BRYANT We are responsible for how we use our power
CLAIRE WARDLE Forget deepfakes: Misinformation is showing up in our most personal online spaces
JOHN GARRETT You can’t raise prices forever
ELISABETH GOODRIDGE Yes, they signed up — but our job’s not over
M. SCOTT HAVENS Time to swing for the fences
JONAS KAISER Catching up with “Neuland”
MIKE CAULFIELD Ditch the media literacy cynicism and get to work
ADAM SMITH Platforms will have to help rebuild trust in news
SARAH STONBELY Mapping the local news ecosystem — with scale but detail