Data & Graphics Editor, Visuals

Job Description

CNN Digital is the most powerful news brand on the internet, reaching millions of people across platforms and around the world every day. We are journalists, designers and technologists, all united by a powerful mission to inform, engage and empower the world. Join the most trusted and recognized name in news and be a part of a dynamic global team of smart, collaborative and thoughtful journalists doing essential work at a critical time

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The Job

CNN Digital's data and graphics team is growing and we're looking for an interdisciplinary journalist who will help us do essential, creative, and groundbreaking journalism. The journalist will be part of the global data and graphics team and partner closely with their teammates and our other news desks to contextualize the news and cover stories about the most important issues of our time. They will help us find, report on, analyze and visualize data across beats, including breaking news and the intersections of policy, business, climate, health, inequity and more.

Applicants for this position should have experience reporting, working with data visualization and telling stories creatively, whether that's through dataviz, interactive features, webGL, or something else entirely. This is a position where you will be expected to pitch and develop your own stories as well as collaborate with others to create high impact visual and data-driven journalism. The role can be based out of any of CNN's major US bureaus and remote work is a possibility.

The Daily
• Pitch, report and edit visual and data-driven stories
• Create graphics and visuals, including maps, charts, interactives or other visual storytelling formats for breaking news stories and medium to long-term features
• Plan proactively and identify strong data and graphics opportunities for the data and graphics stories and stories across other desks
• Review data, analyses, stories, visualizations and graphics to ensure they uphold rigorous standards
• Collaborate closely with data and graphics teammates to document your work, open source data when relevant, and participate in skill sharing

The Essentials
• A desire to push storytelling forward and the ability to think creatively about how we use graphics and data in the service of journalism. You put the journalism first, have impeccable news judgment, and are always asking ''what's the best way to tell this story?''
• You are a varsity level communicator and feel as comfortable walking through a story pitch with editors as you do working closely with colleagues to create and shape a graphics project
• A reader-first perspective and strong commitment to multiplatform storytelling
• You're comfortable working collaboratively, individually and with cross-functional teams
• Familiarity with the command line and Git
• Experience working with some combination of modern data and visualization tools, such as Illustrator, ai2html, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and related libraries (especially D3), R, Python, SQL, Excel, etc.
• Some familiarity with modern mapping tools (Arc, QGIS, MapBox, Maps4News, etc.)
• At least 3-5 years of newsroom experience or comparable data/visualization experience
• If you don't have every one of these skills, that's OK. We want to hear from candidates who are passionate about this work and could bring their unique vision and experiences to the role.

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles that will be performed in New York City. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery's total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $77,840.00 - $144,560.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@warnermedia.com.

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