Shazna Nessa

Teaches at Newmark Graduate School of Journalism

Shazna Nessa is deputy managing editor of editorial products and innovation at the Associated Press in New York and runs an award-winning global department that creates visual and interactive news content in multiple formats. She joined AP in 1999 in Paris and was transferred to New York a year later as an interactive news designer. In 2005, she was named interactive editor of asap, AP’s seminal news service that produced multimedia-rich content using new storytelling techniques. In 2007, the London native and Sorbonne graduate left AP for a year to work at Conde Nast’s Portfolio.com, as executive multimedia producer. Today her work is primarily focused around transitions in a rapidly shifting media ecosystem and the innovations in storytelling.