By Delano Massey ▪ “Legacy media has shown for 200 years it won’t do what it never has.”

By Steve Henn ▪ “Public radio stations can leverage the reach of their broadcast infrastructure to anchor a civic information network that serves communities across multiple platforms.”

By Susie Cagle ▪ “The human hands behind news will need to be more obvious.”

By Basile Simon ▪ “The aim is to develop an ‘electronic press pass’ for journalists that cryptographically seals their words and images against tampering.”

By Danielle C. Belton ▪ “If corporate, conglomerate-owned news organizations are willing to abandon their principles around diversity, equity, and inclusion, they’ll happily abandon their principles around almost anything.”

By Chris Krewson ▪ “These emerging publishers need to learn how to properly manage risk for their businesses. The data shows us that, by and large, many don’t do that right now.”

By Annie Rudd ▪ “There are broad swaths of the newspaper where photographs haven’t traditionally been held to stringent expectations of accuracy, and where ‘news illustrations’ are already welcome.”

By Leon Yin ▪ “As access to official APIs and research agreements decreases, crowdsourcing emerges out of necessity.”

By Seth C. Lewis ▪ “The breaking of the hamster wheel’s fundamental premise — that humans must run it — creates space for reimagining what journalism could be if not organized around acceleration as its governing logic.”

By Eric Nuzum ▪ “2026 is the year podcasting finally gets tired of its own problems.”

By Faisal Karimi ▪ “In exile, the main pressures became lack of time, limited resources, and absence of long-term support.”

By Ethar El-Katatney ▪ “Journalists will need permission to answer questions and intervene, not just publish and move on.”

By Lela Savic ▪ “Here is the consequence we are not talking about enough: a growing brain drain.”

By Andrew Haeg ▪ “The more you share across a network, the more signal you get about what works and what doesn’t.”

By Sam Ford ▪ “It’s crucial that news organizations think about how we tap into local talent to make placemaking a community-wide endeavor and to get — and keep — people civically engaged with their place, and one another.”

By Justin Rushing ▪ “Young reporters are not simply inheriting journalism as it exists. They are rewriting its rules.”

By Robert Hernandez ▪ “We can’t hide behind false claims of objectivity but also claim to ‘give voice to the voiceless’ or ‘comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.'”

By Maritza L. Félix ▪ “In 2026, this won’t be toxic positivity blind to the wolf’s claws, nor idealism ignoring the next blow. Real light: illuminating tired faces, forging paths through dark, guiding those behind.”

By Sydette Harry ▪ “Journalism isn’t listening to people, and they are tired of waiting.”

By Errin Haines ▪ “This moment is not as a crisis to manage, but as a mandate for change.”