Predictions for news in 2019

There’s a trend in recent discussions about web development in journalism, which is the subtext of David Eads’ “Cast-iron coding” thread, Frank Chimero’s “Everything easy is hard again” talk, Ethan Marcotte’s “Designing, laws, and attitudes” post, and Fatih Kadir Akin’s injunction to “Stop building websites with infinite scroll!”

My prediction and hope for 2019: news websites get easier to build, maintain, sustain, archive and read, while the tooling to do all that simplifies. It’s a big order.

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