Data Editor

You will edit, provide oversight, and advise on data-driven projects across the newsroom. You will help our data reporters set a strategy for both smart use of routine data in everyday pieces and for ways to drive long-term, investigative reporting efforts. You will provide guidance to data journalists and work with beat reporters on some of our most important work.

What you will do:

Edits, collaborates with, and provides guidance to a small team of data reporters and works on some of our biggest, most complicated stories.
Helps reporters use data to break news and tell stories, using data from a range of sources, both internal and external. Helps craft methodology published with articles that explains clearly how we do what we do.
Participates in story idea meetings across the newsroom and discusses data-oriented reporting and help put in place data standards across teams.
Works with the data visualization unit to develop graphics to enhance our reporting.
Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

You need to have:

Bachelor’s degree.
A total of 7 years’ relevant data experience, with a minimum 3+ years’ experience working for a news organization.
Demonstrated expertise in computer science fundamentals and building applications at-scale using Microsoft and open-source technology.
Experience in using statistics and data concepts in a newsroom to produce top-notch journalism.
Ability to help build best practices standards for data-based reporting.
Proficiency in programming languages R or Python, along with skills in SQL, Excel and web-scraping techniques.
Exceptional curiosity and news judgment to unpack complicated legal and government actions and help reporters make them relevant and interesting.

Bloomberg Industry Group IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and fully subscribes to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity. Bloomberg Industry Group has adopted an Affirmative Action Program to ensure that all applicants and employees are considered for hire, promotion, and job status without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical issues, genetic information, disabled veteran, veteran, a veteran of the Vietnam Era, or any other classification protected by law.