This document provides information on how to become a news app developer in a newsroom. It discusses what news apps are, the typical background of news app developers as "nerds" with skills in coding, databases and mapping. It outlines an agile development process where news app developers work closely with editors. The document encourages learning skills like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and web frameworks like Ruby on Rails or Python Django. It promotes using open government data and notes there are currently 40 open positions for news app developers. It provides resources for continuing education and networking within the journalism technology community.

1. How to Make News
Apps in Your Newsroom
follow along
bit.ly/sndnerd

2. The SND Session
That Will Get You a Job
(Not Just a Beer)

3. Us
Brian Boyer Scott Klein
Chicago Tribune ProPublica
@brianboyer @kleinmatic

4. What is a News App?

9. Who are
News App
Developers?

10. We Art Nerd
are
Computer
Nerds Nerd
Like
You
flickr: jon.hayes

11. A Little OCD
flickr: r_sykes

12. Tommy Giglio/Medill Magazine

13. Tommy Giglio/Medill Magazine

14. Dan Nguyen/ProPublica

15. Tommy Giglio/Medill Magazine

16. Dan Nguyen/ProPublica

17. Who News App
Developers Aren’t

18. flickr: drumminhands

19. A Bit of History

20. Agile 2001
2005
2005 at the Lawrence
Journal-World
2006

21. We Report to Editors

22. Photo News Apps
Editor Editor Editor
Reporter Photo- News Apps
Journalist Developer

23. Demos, Not Memos

24. 40 Open
Positions

25. So, you’re
convinced...

26. Skills...

27. Presentation tools: HTML, CSS, Javascript
alistapart.com developer.mozilla.org

28. Language + web framework: Ruby + Rails

29. Language + web framework: Python + Django

30. Databases!
PostgreSQL
MySQL

31. Maps:
QGIS
PostGIS
Tilemill

32. Where news hackers
hang out at night
NICAR-L
Hacks & Hackers

33. Free
Government
Data

37. bit.ly/sndnerd
@brianboyer
@kleinmatic