We’re hiring full-time and trainee data journalists Come and join The Economist’s quantitative-journalism department December 16th 2020 The Economist has always distinguished itself for numeracy and analytical rigour. Our data-journalism team conducts original quantitative research, deploying cutting-edge statistical methods to ask and answer important, relevant questions about politics, economics and society. We are looking to hire two data journalists: one experienced candidate for a full-time, permanent position, and one promising candidate for a six-month traineeship. If you would like to work at the intersection of data science, journalism and computational social science and share your research with The Economist’s influential global audience, please get in touch at the email address below. We hope the chosen candidate can join us soon, but can accommodate a later start date if necessary. Full-time data journalist Job description Regularly conduct research and write articles for all sections of the newspaper, both in print and online. Particular emphasis will be placed on contributions to the print Graphic Detail section and to our online Daily Chart, working closely with our data-visualisation department Edit the print Graphic Detail page when necessary, including supervision of data journalists’ statistical research, editing their articles and approving the visualisation Collaborate with beat journalists on longer stories that combine original statistical research with conventional reporting Duration Permanent, full-time staff position Location London preferred. We can consider candidates based elsewhere in Europe, the Middle East or Africa, or in the eastern parts of the United States, Canada or Latin America, as long as they are willing to spend an initial incorporation period in Britain and travel there subsequently as needed Essential skills Fluency in the R (preferred) or Python programming languages for statistical analysis with large datasets Extensive experience with modelling statistical [...]
