You Be You

Presented at the Canadian Association of Journalists annual conference, CAJ15.

Transcript

1. You Be You CAJ15
2. Hello!
   I’m Chrys Wu @MacDiva
3. Chrys Wu @MacDiva Developer Advocate The New York Times
4. Chrys Wu @MacDiva Developer Advocate The New York Times Photo: Matt Haughey/Flickr cc2.0
5. Part of the Technology group (seen here) Photo: Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
6. “We build the roads on which the newsroom throws its parades.” Platforms, tools, apps, engines, services & APIs that make it all possible…
7. Web Platform NYTimes.com mobile.nytimes.com
8. Apps NYTimes app (Android, iOS, Windows, Blackberry)
9. NYTimes Games nytimes.com/crosswords
10. Products NYT Now (iOS)
11. Products cooking.nytimes.com
12. Services for example: nytimes.com/myalerts
13. Learn more about our work (including how we get computers to read New York Times recipes) developers.nytimes.com github.com/nytimes
14. This is your portal to infinite possibility.
15. How do I approach this story? ?
16. A little inspiration… Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
17. People love quizzes, especially those that tell them something about themselves. j.mp/NYTdialectquiz Our most-read online item in 2013
18. The heat map on the left is informative — and keeps people motivated to answer all 25 questions. By Josh Katz and Wilson Andrews of The New York Times
19. Find ways to involve your audience in the story. j.mp/NYTincome-college
20. Let people examine their assumptions. j.mp/NYTincome-college-results By Gregor Aisch, Amanda Cox and Kevin Quealy of The New York Times
21. So what can you “steal”? This is where GitHub becomes your friend.
22. Many news organizations — The New York Times included — make code, tools and guides available for others to use. github.com/nytimes github.com/newsdev
23. Take a look at the Mother Jones quiz generator (uses Google Spreadsheets) github.com/ motherjones/newsquiz
24. See the news quiz generator in action. j.mp/MoJo-scandal- apology-quiz
25. People have shared solutions that make it easier to work together. People with lots of code experience have made tools that allow those with little code experience to get a story out faster.
26. ArchieML — you can use this! By Michael Strickland, Archie Tse and Matthew Ericson of The New York Times Made to “make it easier to write and edit structured text on deadline that could be rendered in web pages, or more specifically, rendered in interactive graphics.”
27. ai2html — you can use this! By Archie Tse of The New York Times “ai2html is an open-source script for Adobe Illustrator that converts your Illustrator documents into html and css.”
28. Chartbuilder — you can use this! By David Yanofsky of Quartz Try it: quartz.github.io/Chartbuilder/ Get the code: github.com/Quartz/Chartbuilder Chartbuilder
29. Newshound — you can use this! By JP Robinson of The New York Times Try it: newshound.jprbnsn.com Get the code: github.com/jprobinson/newshound
30. Newshound aggregates breaking news email alerts. By JP Robinson of The New York Times Try it: newshound.jprbnsn.com Get the code: github.com/jprobinson/newshound
31. Be awesome. And thank you for inviting me.