Company Overview:
Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 125 years and today has one of the world’s largest news gathering operations globally. It produces leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Financial News, DJX, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, and Dow Jones VentureSource.
Job Description:
The Wall Street Journal is seeking an experienced data journalist to join its award-winning visuals team in New York. This role involves data analysis, reporting, writing, and programming, so the best candidate will have skills in all these areas. Working closely with reporters, editors, our investigative team and other members of the graphics team, this candidate will uncover new stories within data, produce robust analyses from large datasets, and create original reporting from data. The right candidate will have a demonstrable track record reporting and producing data-driven stories at a news organization. In addition to analytical skills, the right candidate will be technically proficient in robust suite of digital tools intended to analyze big data, such as Excel, Access and SQL. The ideal candidate will also possess knowledge in at least one scripting language related to data analysis, like Python, R, Ruby or Node, and knowledge of front-end programming like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Familiarity with the Adobe Creative Suite is an asset.
Applications should include a resume, cover letter and up to five published clips.
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Equal Opportunity Employer:
Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets
Requisition ID2015-26960
Job Locations USA-NY-NEW YORK
Job Function News/Editorial
Business Area NEWS
Job Area1 News
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