Steve Smith's Eye on Innovation: OutsideLooks To Overcome VR Skepticism Blocked: Only 17% Of Publishers Track Ad Blockers Angela Merkel Is a Smart-and Strategic?-'Person of the Year' 3 Wine Spectator's New App Is Dry (But Functional) 5 Big Moves Across the Industry In This Week's 'New Recruits' 7 Will Google's AMP Go to 11? 8 Facebook Continues to Bring Big Follower and Traffic Growth

The article covers issues related to the publishing industry as of December 2015 including virtual reality (VR), advertisement blocking and the selection of German Chancellor Angela Merkel as Person of the Year by "Time" magazine.