Resolutions for a new decade: 12 trends to watch, or ignore

Somehow, 2020 is the start of my *sixth decade as a journalist.
Not sure if that makes me “grizzled” or “old-fashioned” or simply a “dinosaur,” but the calendar’s yardstick got me thinking: How does one keep their professional edge in an age where useful news gets lost in a nasty mixture of low-value, anger-inducing noise.
It’s an era when a brief financial swing or a single corporate move or one freshly minted data point can be blown up into an on