Data Reporter, New Grad

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Job Summary:

Hearst Connecticut Media Group is the state’s largest newsroom, seeking an ambitious Data Reporter to join their team. The role involves reporting and writing, data analysis, web scraping, and collaborating with other journalists to enhance storytelling and engage with the audience.

Responsibilities:

• Reporting and writing — both alone and with other reporters.

• Web scraping.

• Data cleaning and complex analysis.

• Data visualization, mapping and design, preferably using DataWrapper and Mapbox.

• Conceive ideas and work with reporters, photographers, editors and developers to enhance our storytelling.

• Identify and pursue stories that have a potential for real-world impact.

• Use analytics to understand audience needs and trends, especially for subscribers.

• Research, test and teach new methods for working with data and documents.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Experience in a modern newsroom or a related work environment.

• Strong news judgment.

• Curiosity mixed with obsessive attention to detail, especially in data validation.

• Ability to report stories and write and build quickly while keeping the strictest commitment to fairness and accuracy.

• Knowledge of multimedia storytelling, social media engagement and other strategies to broaden readership.

• Ability to collaborate with all newsroom teams and work in a fast-changing news environment.

• Time-management skills to pull off a mix of daily and enterprise work.

• Knowledge of AI and machine learning.

• Willingness and drive to learn new technical and newsroom skills.

• Proficiency in a scripting language such as Python (our preference) or R.

• A sound understanding of basic statistical principles.

• This position is full-time.

• It could include some weekend and holiday work.

• The successful candidate must be based in Connecticut or nearby New York or willing to move to the region.

Preferred:

• Subject matter expertise in health, education, housing or criminal justice.

• Ability to speak a second language like Spanish.

Company:

Hearst Magazines is a Media Production house. Founded in 2006, the company is headquartered in West New York, New Jersey, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.