Data Journalist

Location: High Street Kensington, London
Position: Full time or part time, minimum 3 days/week

About the Role

To lead on telling stories with and about data, both self-generated and commissioned. Generating data visualisations including charts, maps, interactive graphics, and other forms of data visualisation.

Main Responsibilities

• Stay on top of new and updating datasets that could be used for New Scientist stories
• Pitch and produce data-led stories
• Work with other reporters and editors to illustrate their stories with data
• Produce graphics and video for a range of platforms, including the website, app, social media and magazine

Person Specification

• Experience in reporting with data and producing compelling data visualisation
• A passionate interest in both science and technology
• A degree in science or technology, ideally
• Ability to write clearly and communicate complex subject matter for a non-technical audience
• Good knowledge of digital journalism practices and social media platforms
• A passion for data and familiarity with basic statistical concepts
• Excellent news and editorial judgement and storytelling skills
• Experience of data visualisation software eg Flourish

Skills

• Able to generate inventive and compelling ideas
• Excellent editorial judgement and an imaginative approach to journalism
• Collaborative
• Willingness to innovate and experiment
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent digital skills
• Able to work effectively under pressure
• Organised
• Imaginative and creative
• Proactive
• Confident and assertive
• Flexible and adaptive, commitment to continuous learning

 

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Pension plan and life cover
• Discounts on online shopping, dining cards and vouchers, and access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Onsite gym, subsidised canteen and onsite nurse and GP clinics

Plus much more...

About Us

New Scientist is the world’s most popular weekly science and technology publication. Our website, app and print editions cover international news from a scientific standpoint, and ask the big-picture questions about life, the universe and what it means to be human. If someone in the world has a good idea, you will read about it in New Scientist.

Since the magazine was founded in 1956 for “all those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences”, it has expanded to include newsletters, videos, podcasts, courses and live events in the UK, US and Australia, including New Scientist Live, the world’s greatest festival of science. New Scientist is based in London and New York, with operations elsewhere in the UK, the US and Australia.

In a time when facts are in short supply, there has never been a greater need for a trusted, impartial source of information about what is going on in the world – or a greater need for inspiration through exceptional ideas.

www.newscientist.com

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.