Assistant Editor, Data Journalism

Description

The newsroom reports from nearly 160 countries, and the company's business depends on journalism strong enough that readers want to pay for it.

The Data Journalism team is hiring an assistant editor with editing, management and data analysis experience. You will help run a group of data journalists who work across the newsroom and advise on data analyses done elsewhere in the newsroom.

The team works with nearly every other desk, so the role depends on clear communication, practical problem-solving and tact with colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Help lead the Data Journalism team
• Supervise several data reporters directly
• Guide, refine and challenge the team's data analyses
• Advise on data analyses that reporters outside the Data Journalism team produce
• Handle a shifting mix of short, medium and long deadlines
• Support the company's commitment to journalistic independence and its mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world
• Report to the Data Editor, who is based in New York City

Requirements

• 5+ years of data journalism experience
• Working knowledge of Python and/or R, spreadsheets and relational databases
• Attention to detail and a rigorous approach to your work
• Ability to raise the quality of stories and develop your colleagues' skills
• Preferred: 2+ years of leadership, editing and/or mentorship experience
• Preferred: experience leading a data journalism team
• Preferred: experience working collaboratively on multidisciplinary teams, and a preference for that way of working
• Preferred: experience editing data for stories during major news cycles
• Preferred: comfort with command-line tools, version control, large language models and other technical skills
• Submit a cover letter of no more than four pages describing your qualifications through three stories or projects you helped shape, with a link to each and one to three paragraphs on your contribution. You may add a brief traditional summary of your career and skills within that limit.
• Requisition number REQ-020639

Conditions

This is an in-office role, with attendance in the office four days a week

New York City is the preferred location, and Washington, DC is the secondary preference

The annual base pay range is $150,000 - $175,000 USD

Submit your own work and do not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process. Engineering candidates will be told which GenAI tools are allowed for their technical assessment.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, age, race, citizenship, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

The company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state and local law during the application and interview process.

Benefits

• For U.S. roles, variable pay may be available depending on the role, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock
• Medical, dental and vision coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, an employee stock purchase plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs
• For roles outside the U.S., benefit details will be shared during the interview process