Annual Report 2018
This year, The Essentials Report, has curated & analyzed the content published by 162 influencers like Nieman Lab and Poynter, discussing hashtags such as #socialj , #TimesUpNews and #poynterwomenleaders.
Read our yearly report or learn more about Essentials.
What matters to our readers VS what matters to the rest of the world in 2018
Popular with our readers
Top Hashtags & Sources
Hashtags our readers care about
Top Mentioned Sources
Best articles in 2018
What is it that journalism studies is studying these days? A lot about newsrooms, less about everybody else in the news ecosystem
Also, has the "fake news" moment already passed for academics?
7 Reasons Why News Startups Fail
Startups possess great potential to improve journalism. In theory, they can be the sites where new products, novel revenue streams and altered ways of organizing are discovered, tested and ...
AI has a gender problem. Here’s what to do about it
Submissive female robots, servile voice assistants - does AI need a feminist revolution?
The First Question for Journalism
The question that comes before being able to scale or innovate or succeed at developing a winning business model.
Reinventing Local TV News
When the Rev. Billy Graham died in February, Raleigh-based WRAL-TV provided expansive coverage of the famed evangelist’s life and legacy. That was no …
The universe of people trying to deceive journalists keeps expanding, and newsrooms aren’t ready
"It's going to be a while before we really have an understanding of how we work to combat it beyond the traditional methods that we have used for a few years now."
New Journalism Innovation Project
The Journalism Innovation Project aims to identify and analyse examples of innovative best practices in digital, mobile, and social media journalism to generate new insights to help ...
How Broadcasters Are Making Two-Way Experiences with Interactive Content
The following is a sponsored post from NAB Pilot to promote its Innovation Stories section. Read more about how broadcasters are innovating here. For decades, “broadcast” was a one-way ...
How to end misogyny in the news industry: An open letter to the international journalism community
"We are done pandering to the egos of change-resistant influential men in the hope that our gentle lead will eventually encourage them to join us on a meander toward gender equality in the ...
Your own devices will give the next Cambridge Analytica far more power to influence your vote
Greater connectivity, more data, and auto-generated content will make today’s manipulation techniques look primitive.
A local TV station hired a cartoonist to tell stories that are tough to photograph
WCPO-TV in Cincinnati has a full-time "comics journalist" on staff. He illustrates serious stories that others might avoid, stories that are difficult to photograph because the subjects are ...
What is innovation in local TV news? Andrew Heyward’s new mission is to find out
"It’s a great question because I don’t think we’re suddenly going to come up with some great gimmick and Millennials are going to flock to their TV to watch traditional newscasts."
Google’s news chief Richard Gingras: “We need to rethink journalism at every dimension”
"I think we need to be way more humble. As I often say, technology has value but it doesn’t have values. It’s what we do with it. There’s a lot of bullshit in the Valley."
