FiveThirtyEight is looking for a form, collaborative and artistic Senior Visible Journalist to hitch our Interactives and Graphics staff. Senior Visible Journalists are design leaders within the FiveThirtyEight newsroom. Although they serve primarily as particular person contributors, additionally they amplify the work of the staff by mentoring extra junior visible journalists, thoughtfully giving and receiving suggestions and main by instance. We’re in search of a seasoned journalist who will train robust information judgment, deliver a pointy eye for element and maintain our work to the very best requirements.
The Senior Visible Journalist will report back to both the Deputy Editor, Interactives and Graphics, or the Senior Editor for Interactives and work intently with the remainder of the Interactives staff in addition to reporters and editors throughout the newsroom. This full-time position with advantages is a U.S.-based place. Full-time distant work could also be thought-about, however as a result of our workplaces are in New York Metropolis, we desire candidates based mostly within the space.
When you have questions, please e-mail Deputy Editor Chris Groskopf. To use, submit a canopy letter and résumé by means of the Disney Careers portal.
Obligations:
- Producing extremely polished, visually impactful tales and tasks that entice, excite and have interaction our readers
- Main the design course of for our bigger tasks, together with by creating rules, specs and different documentation that allow work to be delegated to the staff
- Contributing to a rotation of day by day charts manufacturing and “seconding” much less skilled visible journalists
- Inspiring, mentoring and guiding teammates and colleagues of their visible work
- Collaborating in bigger strategic conversations about visible type, web site design, branding, accessibility and extra
- Giving considerate, candid suggestions to friends, colleagues and managers and brazenly receiving it in flip
Fundamental {Qualifications}:
- Three or extra years of related expertise
- Proficiency utilizing design software program, significantly Adobe Illustrator
- Fluency in JavaScript and a number of libraries used for creating graphics, comparable to D3, together with a useful understanding of the “full stack” of web-development applied sciences
- Fluency in fundamental statistics — for instance, a conversational understanding of ideas comparable to margin of error and regression evaluation
- Eagerness to collaborate with different visible journalists, computational journalists, reporters and editors throughout the newsroom
- Expertise engaged on deadline
Most popular {Qualifications}:
- 5 or extra years of related expertise
- A strong understanding of U.S. politics, significantly electoral politics, main U.S. sports activities and/or science
- Expertise with statistical programming languages, comparable to R
- Expertise with cartography and mapping instruments, comparable to QGIS and TopoJSON
- Expertise making use of product-design methods to massive journalism tasks, comparable to person analysis, speedy prototyping and person testing
candidates are strongly inspired to use even when they don’t meet each qualification.
Certified however prepared 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 consideration for employment with out regard to race, shade, faith, intercourse, age, nationwide origin, sexual orientation, gender id, incapacity or protected veteran standing.
