Shazna Nessa's work in journalism has been at the intersection of storytelling, technology and design. She became an interactive designer and later deputy managing editor of editorial products and innovations at The Associated Press. She was on the team that won a 2011 Knight New Challenge grant to build an open-source tool to help journalists find stories in large amounts of data. In her just completed academic year as a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, she explored how journalists can turn raw information into data visualizations that are both appealing and understandable to real people.  This handout identifies and provides links to content about five technological developments that are going to transform the digital newsroom in the next five years, and how can your newsroom and you personally get ready for them, presented at Austin NewsTrain.

1. FIVE THINGS CHANGING OUR WORLD
AUSTIN NEWSTRAIN, AUGUST 22-23, 2014
Shazna Nessa | @shazna | snessa@gmail.com
Preamble: Always be Learning
A click away
All journalists must learn to get better at learning in a fast-paced and connected world. Whether you want to get better at using Excel spreadsheets or learn how to effectively crop an image in Photoshop, there are more resources than ever before to show you how. Here are several websites offering courses; the first three are free:
https://www.coursera.org
http://online.stanford.edu/courses
http://open.journalismcourses.org
http://www.lynda.com (subscription required, free trial)
Learn from the experience of others
This leaked New York Times innovation report has been called “one of the key documents of this media age” by Nieman Journalism Lab, and there’s a lot to glean from it: http://on.mash.to/1kDcmvI
1. Robots & Automation
Why we love robots by Tiffany Shlain
http://aol.it/1s76dqj
Why robot journalism is great for journalists from New York Magazine
http://nym.ag/1mgQ25Q
Sensor and drone journalism
http://to.pbs.org/1so0u0m
http://www.dronejournalismlab.org/about
Deep learning: teaching computers to tell things apart
http://n.pr/1tPIZZN

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2. The Internet of Things
How the Internet of things could transform our lives
http://bit.ly/1s6mQG8
3. Data
A free, open-source reference book about data journalism
http://datajournalismhandbook.org
Alberto Cairo: Data journalism needs to up its own standards
http://bit.ly/1o8vAsD
How NPR is building an analytics culture in the newsroom
http://bit.ly/1soxJ4x
4. Wearables
Google Glass in journalism school, with Professor Robert Hernandez
http://bit.ly/1pzGxTf
5. Design and Creativity
How to design breakthrough inventions, with David Kelley of IDEO and Charlie Rose
http://cbsn.ws/1zP2vGf
Enchant, Simplify, Amaze: Android's Design Principles
http://bit.ly/WXrUzV