Here you will find dozens of predictions about what 2016 will bring for journalism, from “Local News Gets Smarter on Mobile” to “Distributed Platforms Will Be Your New Homepage.” The only journalism prediction worth a shit in any year is “I Hope I Keep My Job.”

Crime is down in the Modern Gomorrah, but not everyone has accepted it.

For the first time in half a decade, a foreign journalist is being effectively expelled from China, as punishment for her coverage of the government’s handling of ethnic violence in the country’s western Muslim region.

What is real, and what’s a hoax these days? Better question: does any of it even matter?

When staffers at the Huffington Post launched their unionization campaign in October, Arianna Huffington said the company would “fully support” its workers and “embrace whatever decision they make on this issue.” She has a strange way of showing it.

Days after a reporter at The Las Vegas Review-Journal wrote an article wondering aloud who his own boss was, the owner of Nevada’s largest newspaper remains a loud, glaring question mark.

“Who owns a multimillion dollar newspaper?” is not a question you hear very often. But with the shrouded sale of the largest paper in Nevada, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, to an undisclosed owner, the question is being asked over and over.

The most popular comment in the history of the New York Times website is by a Canadian, explaining why Canada is better than the U.S. You love to be told why you suck, America.

On Wednesday night, hours after 14 people were killed in a shooting in San Bernardino, the Daily Beast found photos it thought were of the male shooter, Syed Farook, and posted them on their website and social media accounts.

Here are today’s front pages of New York City’s two tabloid newspapers. Which one is “better?”

For the past six months, digital media companies (including us) have been unionizing in earnest. Now, the media union movement has landed another big one.

Donald Trump is doubling down on his false 9/11 claims, carefully citing a source who says he’s totally wrong.

A gentle “roast” of Vice boss Shane Smith last week by friends such as the head of HBO and Johnny Knoxville reportedly turned out to be one big “lovefest.” (Gawker was initially invited to cover this event, and then disinvited, for some reason.)

Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian was sentenced to prison by an Iranian court, Iran’s state news agency said on Sunday. The 39-year-old was accused of espionage by prosecutors, Reuters reports.

Bloomberg is launching a new “fast commentary” section that is explicitly dedicated to hot takes. Just what the media needs.

Vatican City is its own state with its own laws and you may be surprised to learn that one of those laws is that the practice of journalism is illegal. Cool Pope or Not-So-Cool Pope? You decide.

Editor’s Note: The board of directors of the Dodo has responded to this article, disputing the author’s characterizations of its business strategy, spending rate, staff morale, as well as the timeliness of the story, which addresses many issues that were contained to the Dodo’s first year of operation, in 2014. Its full response can be found below.

The mainstream media is but one slice of the paid writing world. The deeper you go, the murkier it gets.

After patriotism and religion, “attacking the media” is the most popular refuge of the scoundrel.

Even in ideal conditions, it is not easy making a living as a freelance writer. It is much harder when the places you write for don’t pay you promptly. That’s where we come in.