Job Details
CNN Data & Graphics Editor (12m FTC)
CNN Data & Graphics Editor (12m FTC)
Summary
CNN Digital’s data and graphics team is growing and we’re looking for a Data & Graphics Editor who will help us do essential, creative, and groundbreaking journalism.
Category
Digital Media
Editor
Graphic Design
Motion Graphics
Location
London, United Kingdom
Time Period
Full Time
Posted Date
Jan 10, 2023
Start Date
N/A
End Date
N/A
Job Description
The Data & Graphics Editor will be part of the global data and graphics team and partner closely with their teammates and our other news desks to contextualize the news and cover stories about the most important issues of our time. They will help us find, report on, analyse and visualise data across beats, including breaking news and the intersections of policy, business, climate, health, inequity and more.
You should have experience reporting, working with data visualisation and telling stories creatively, whether that’s through dataviz, interactive features, webGL, or something else entirely. This is a position where you can pitch and develop your own stories as well as collaborate with others to create high impact visual and data-driven journalism.
This is initially a fixed term position for a period of 12 months.
The Daily
You should have experience reporting, working with data visualisation and telling stories creatively, whether that’s through dataviz, interactive features, webGL, or something else entirely. This is a position where you can pitch and develop your own stories as well as collaborate with others to create high impact visual and data-driven journalism.
This is initially a fixed term position for a period of 12 months.
The Daily
- Pitch, report and edit visual and data-driven stories
- Create graphics and visuals, including maps, charts, interactives or other visual storytelling formats for breaking news stories and medium to long-term features
- Plan proactively and identify strong data and graphics opportunities for the data and graphics stories and stories across other desks
- Review data, analyses, stories, visualisations and graphics to ensure they uphold rigorous standards
- Collaborate closely with data and graphics teammates to document your work, open source data when relevant, and participate in skill sharing
The Essentials
- A desire to push storytelling forward and the ability to think creatively about how we use graphics and data in the service of journalism. You put the journalism first, have impeccable news judgment, and are always asking “what’s the best way to tell this story?”
- Excellent communication skills, as comfortable walking through a story pitch with editors as you are working closely with colleagues to create and shape a graphics project
- A reader-first perspective and strong commitment to multiplatform storytelling
- Familiarity with the command line and Git
- Experience working with some combination of modern data and visualization tools, such as Illustrator, ai2html, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and related libraries (especially D3)
- Some familiarity with modern mapping tools (Arc, QGIS, MapBox, Maps4News, etc.)
- Proven newsroom experience or data/visualisation experience
The Nice-To-Haves - Experience with Python, SQL, Excel, etc.
Job Type
Contract
Full Time
Temporary
Weekly Limit
N/A
Shift
Day
Attached Files
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