Every year at MediaShift, we take the last two weeks of the year to hear from experts in the media business about what 2015 brought to the industry and what 2016 promises.
Below, you’ll find this year’s collection of roundups, analysis and predictions. Happy new year from all of us. Here’s to another exciting year in the shifting of media.
Series Posts
The Race for Speed and Mobility: The Year in Analytics and What to Expect in 2016, by Alexandra Kanik
Top 10 Media Stories of 2015: Distributed Content, Media ‘Unicorns,’ Podcasts Rising, by Sonia Paul
College Media Year in Review 2015, by Rachele Kanigel
7 Developments in Self Publishing in 2015 That Will Help Writers Focus on Writing, by Carla King
6 Best News Apps of 2015, by Dena Levitz
The Year in Reading: Print Books, Magazines, Newsletters Hold Their Own In 2015, by Jenny Shank
Remix: 11 Ways You Can Innovate in Your Courses in 2016, by Meagan Doll
10 Predictions for Media Metrics in 2016, by Tim Cigelski
Syria, France Top List as Most Deadly Countries for Press in 2015, by Sonia Paul
Mediatwits #182: Looking Back at 2015 and Ahead to 2016, Hosted by Mark Glaser [VID]
#EdShift Chat: 2015 Year in Review, Moderated and Storified by Stacy Forster
Why 2016 Should Be the Year of Engaged Ethics, by Kathleen Culver
Predictions for 2015: Content Shakeout, More Tracking, Measurement Muddle, by Dorian Benkoil
Guest Posts
How Social Media Drove News Traffic in 2015, by Allie VanNess, Parse.ly
Predictions for Surviving and Thriving in the Media Business in 2016, by Paul Berry, RebelMouse
Previous Years in Review
Year in Review 2014
Year in Review 2013
Year in Review 2012
Year in Review 2011
Year in Review 2010
Media Mavens Wish for More Collaboration, Less Talk in 2010 by Craig Silverman
Most Popular MediaShift Posts of 2009 by Mark Glaser
Top 10 MediaShifting Stories of 2008 by Mark Glaser
Other coverage from across the web
Predictions for Journalism 2016, Nieman Lab
Investigating the network: The top 10 articles from the year in digital news and social media research, by John Wihbey, Nieman Lab
The best Twitter bots of 2015, Quartz
In 2016, Media Companies Will Lose Even More Control, Mathew Ingram, Fortune
Facebook’s 2015 year in review, Facebook
YouTube Rewind
Courtney Lowery Cowgill is a writer, editor, teacher and farmer. As an editor, she works as the managing editor of PBS MediaShift. As a teacher, she’s an adjunct professor at the University of Montana School of Journalism, specializing in teaching feature writing, legislative reporting, rural journalism and online journalism. Formerly, she was the editor in chief of the now shuttered online magazine NewWest.Net, which she co-founded.