Graphics/Multimedia Editor – Database Developer
| Company | The New York Times |
|---|---|
| Location | Washington, DC, USA, New York, NY, USA |
| Salary | $113945.85 – $155000 |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | |
| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- 3+ years of relevant experience, at least one year of which should be in a newsroom
- Experience developing robust, well-documented data pipelines
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure for data pipelines
- Experience filing public records requests at the federal and state level in the US
- Ability to communicate data analyses powerfully, accurately, and succinctly
- Proficiency working with data in Python and/or R
- Comfort with command-line tooling, version control, and other key technical skills
- Advanced spreadsheet and database skills (e.g., joins, pivot tables, etc.); experience building and querying databases using PostgreSQL and/or BigQuery.
Responsibilities
- Propose, develop, maintain, and document databases (internal and public) that illuminate what’s happening in the world
- Develop expertise on the databases’ material, and use that expertise to pitch stories using the data
- Collaborate with colleagues on stories that use the data
- Teach other data reporters and non-data reporters how to use the databases
- File, track and follow up on public records requests to gather material for those databases
- Organize the team’s data resources and keep them up-to-date
- Seek out opportunities to make our data collection efforts more efficient, including selective use of AI
- Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with, and a preference for, working collaboratively on multidisciplinary teams
- Traditional reporting skills
- Experience reporting in response to major news cycles
- Experience with public records requests outside the US