Assistant Editor, Data Journalism

The Data Journalism team is looking for an experienced journalist with editing management and data analysis skills to serve as an assistant editor. Youll help to run a group of data journalists who collaborate across the newsroom. Youll also advise on analyses conducted elsewhere in the newsroom.

You should be obsessed with detail and rigor display a knack for lifting stories to the next level and care deeply about developing your colleagues talents. Collaboration is at the heart of this role; the Data Journalism team works with virtually every other desk in the newsroom. Well expect you to deftly navigate these partnerships which require crisp communication a problem-solving attitude and a dash of diplomacy.

This is an in-office position and includes regular attendance in the office four days a week. We have a preference for candidates who will work in New York City with a secondary preference for Washington DC.

Important application requirement: Please submit a cover letter that describes your qualifications in the context of three stories (or projects) you helped to shape. For each please provide a link to the work and describe your contributions in one to three paragraphs. Your cover letter should not exceed four pages in total. Within that limit you are also welcome to provide a more traditional (but brief) description of your career and talents.

Responsibilities:

• Help to lead the Data Journalism team

• Directly supervise several data reporters on the team

• Shepherd shape and stress-test the teams data analyses

• Consult on data analyses conducted by reporters outside the Data Journalism team

• Be comfortable working on an unpredictable mix of short medium and long deadlines

• Demonstrate support and understanding of ourvalue of journalistic independenceand a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

• You will report to the Data Editor who is based in New York City.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 years of data journalism experience

• Proficiency working with data in Python and/or R spreadsheets and relational databases

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 years of leadership editing and/or mentorship experience

• Experience leading a data journalism team

• Experience with and a preference for working collaboratively on multidisciplinary teams

• Experience data-editing in response to major news cycles

• Comfort with command-line tooling version control working with large language models and other key technical skills

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Additional Compensation and Benefits:

For roles in the U.S. dependent on your role you may be eligible for variable pay such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits may include medical dental and vision benefits Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s) a company-matching 401(k) plan employee stock purchase plan paid vacation paid sick days paid parental leave tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.

For roles outside of the U.S. information on benefits will be provided during the interview process.

Candidate Use of GenAI Tools:

Were excited to learn more about you and your experience. To keep our hiring process as fair and authentic as possible we ask that you submit your own work and not use GenAI tools to generate substantive content during the application and interview process.

If youre an engineering candidate well let you know what specific GenAI tools you are permitted to use for your technical assessment.

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