The year of journalists taking initiative “2021 is the year for journalists from all sides of the newsroom to step into the cultural challenge that is a white-washed, male-dominated media industry and walk into a cultural change.” I hope U.S.-based news outlets are ready because I believe 2021 will be the year of the journalist. But not just any journalist. I’m talking about the ones who speak truth to power — in their own newsrooms. Journalists who tell stories, and live stories, and live to tell stories. The journalists who make their newsrooms go round, who gather readers and listeners and watchers, who dare to challenge their job description and reach beyond the legacy and into a present and future that requires more of themselves, their teams, their editors, their outlets, and their communities.