How to prepare for journalism jobs of the near-future

This is just a snapshot of the whole article - must read in more detail from here: Poynter.org


Data and algorithms investigations team: You can use algorithms to do things like calculate really large numbers or compress audio or produce thousands of automated news stories on a particular topic.
If you’re interested, Dartmouth has a good intro to algorithms class online.

Enhanced Reporter:  reporters using artificial intelligence to help them discover trends or different angles of a story.
It may sound farfetched, but it’s the same technology that’s used in facial recognition software, automatic scheduling software and speech recognitio
 this Stanford syllabus, and then supplementing with video lectures from MIT.
More reading: 4 Examples of AI’s Rise in Journalism (And What it Means for Journalists); My battle to prove I write better than an AI robot called ‘Emma’ 

Augmented reality producer: this CJR piece which details lots of examples, and then reading this Knight Foundation series on virtual and augmented reality storytelling

Bot developer:  this excellent tutorial by Darius Kazemi if you’re interested in making your own.
How are they useful? Think of something you’d like to automate, or monitor, or do — and there’s likely a bot you can design to help you.
More reading: The New York Times has a 2016 Election bot; Automation in the Newsroom.

Platforms manager, data scientist: this Stanford stats class, along with some classes in data analysis and SQL — because you’ll likely be juggling lots of data and then crunching the numbers to make decisions for your newsroom. Reddit’s Data Science community is quite helpful, as is learning how to use Jupyter notebooks for data visualizations.