From Katy Perry to Jackie Chan: My Top Stories Of 2015

Writing the cover story on Katy Perry–the world’s highest-paid musician of the past year–was one of my highlights of 2015. (Photo by Jamel Toppin for Forbes).

As the clock runs out on each year,we in the Mainstream Media tend to get nostalgic–or lazy–and our coverage takes on a retrospective tone. In my case, that involves offering thoughts on the music industry’s big winners, predicting what will happen in 2016andindulging myself–and hopefully you, too–with some of my own journalistic highli...