Trend Reports
Bond Capital – Mary Meeker Internet Trends Report 2019
Bond Capital – Our New World 2020
Reuters, Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions, 2021
Fast Company, The World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, 2021
New York Times, Journalism that Stands Apart 2020 Group
Knight Foundation, Mobile-First News: How People Use Smartphones to Assess Information, 2016
Social Media Use in 2021, Pew Center – co-authored by PhDigital Fellow Brooke Auxier
Mobile Fact Sheet, Pew Center
Product Management
American Press Institute, Best Practices for Product Management
The State of the News Product Community 2020
Managing Digital Products in a Newsroom Context – ISOJ
What is Agile Methodology, InfoWorld 2018
Programming & Code
What is Code? by Paul Ford
What is Coding? CodeConquest
Book — JavaScript & JQuery: Interactive Frontend Web Development by Jon Duckett
Book — HTML & CSS: Build and Design Websites by Jon Duckett
App Development with Swift, free iBook from Apple
User Experience Design
10 Principles for Good Design, Dieter Rams
UI vs UX: What is the Difference, User Testing Blog
Responsive Web Design, A List Apart, by Ethan Marcotte
Data Analysis
What is an API?, Muleshoft
What is an API?, O’Reilly
Data Journalism
The Art and Science of Data-Driven Journalism, The Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Alexander Howard
Data Journalism: An Explication, ISOJ Journal, 2016, Royal
The Journalist as Programmer – ISOJ Vol. 2, Issue 1, 2012, Royal
Data Journalism and Visualization Projects
There are many excellent examples of data journalism and visualization projects. Here are just a few.
Hell and High Water, ProPublica and Texas Tribune
Dollars for Docs, ProPublica
Gun Deaths in America, FiveThirtyEight
Mixed Signs, Fatal Consequences, Austin American-Statesman
Fenced Out, Washington Post
Texas Public Schools Explorer, Texas Tribune
The Rhymes Behind Hamilton, Wall Street Journal
Digital Curriculum
Developing a New Major in Digital Media Innovation at Texas State
Why Texas State’s Digital Media Degree is Attracting Female Students
How to Create a Social Media and Analytics Class
Developing a Digital Core in Mass Communication Curriculum
Books
Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World by Meredith Broussard
Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media by Nick Diakopoulos
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuk
Crush It and Crushing It both by Gary Vaynerchuk
Engaged Journalism: Connecting With Digitally Empowered News Audiences by Jake Batsell
Interactive Journalism: Hackers, Data and Code by Nikki Usher
Apostles of Certainty: Data Journalism and the Politics of Doubt by CW Anderson – out September 2018
Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News by Alfred Hermida and Mary Lynn Young, 2019
Make a TikTok Every Day by Dave Jorgenson of Washington Post, 2021
Ask Your Developer by Jeff Lawson
The Digital Environment by Pablo Boczkowski
Training and Certification
Your Guide to Social and Digital Certifications, MediaShift by Cindy Royal
Google Analytics for Beginners
Conferences and Organizations
South By Southwest Interactive
International Symposium on Online Journalism
National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting