FiveThirtyEight is looking for a type, collaborative and inventive Senior Visible Journalist to enroll in our Interactives and Graphics group. Senior Visible Reporters are design leaders within the FiveThirtyEight newsroom. Even though they serve essentially as particular person individuals, additionally they enlarge the paintings of the group by means of mentoring extra junior visible newshounds, thoughtfully giving and receiving comments and main by means of instance. We’re on the lookout for a seasoned journalist who will workout sturdy information judgment, deliver a pointy eye for element and hang our paintings to the easiest requirements.
The Senior Visible Journalist will report back to both the Deputy Editor, Interactives and Graphics, or the Senior Editor for Interactives and paintings carefully with the remainder of the Interactives group in addition to journalists and editors around the newsroom. This full-time position with advantages is a U.S.-based place. Complete-time faraway paintings could also be regarded as, however as a result of our workplaces are in New York Town, we desire applicants founded within the space.
In case you have questions, please electronic mail Deputy Editor Chris Groskopf. To use, post a canopy letter and résumé throughout the Disney Careers portal.
Tasks:
- Generating extremely polished, visually impactful tales and initiatives that draw in, excite and interact our readers
- Main the design procedure for our higher initiatives, together with by means of growing ideas, specs and different documentation that allow paintings to be delegated to the group
- Contributing to a rotation of day-to-day charts manufacturing and “seconding” much less skilled visible newshounds
- Inspiring, mentoring and guiding teammates and co-workers of their visible paintings
- Collaborating in higher strategic conversations about visible taste, website design, branding, accessibility and extra
- Giving considerate, candid comments to friends, colleagues and executives and brazenly receiving it in flip
Elementary {Qualifications}:
- 3 or extra years of related enjoy
- Talent the use of design tool, specifically Adobe Illustrator
- Fluency in JavaScript and a number of libraries used for growing graphics, similar to D3, together with a practical working out of the “complete stack” of web-development applied sciences
- Fluency in elementary statistics — for instance, a conversational working out of ideas similar to margin of error and regression research
- Eagerness to collaborate with different visible newshounds, computational newshounds, journalists and editors around the newsroom
- Revel in running on time limit
Most well-liked {Qualifications}:
- 5 or extra years of related enjoy
- A cast working out of U.S. politics, specifically electoral politics, main U.S. sports activities and/or science
- Revel in with statistical programming languages, similar to R
- Revel in with cartography and mapping equipment, similar to QGIS and TopoJSON
- Revel in making use of product-design ways to huge journalism initiatives, similar to person analysis, fast prototyping and person checking out
applicants are strongly inspired to use although they don’t meet each and every qualification.
Certified however in a position for a brand new problem? We’re additionally hiring a Senior Editor for Interactives.
ABC Information and FiveThirtyEight are equal-opportunity employers. Candidates will obtain attention for employment with out regard to race, colour, faith, intercourse, age, nationwide beginning, sexual orientation, gender identification, incapacity or secure veteran standing.
