Data Reporter

As a reporter with a true investigative mindset, you will leverage government and private datasets like sources, asking questions and challenging assumptions to produce hard-hitting original stories with impact. You’ll collaborate with a wide range of dedicated journalists across our commercial platforms, including Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Government and Bloomberg Tax, as well as the Bloomberg terminal, helping them with data exploration, acquisition and analysis. You’ll partner closely with our investigations team, strategizing on data sources, acquiring data through FOIA or other means, exploring, cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing datasets, and communicate your findings to the rest of the team.

What you will do:

Search for, acquire and analyze data in pursuit of breaking and longer-term stories, with an eye for disruptions in the legal, financial, and government arenas.

Challenge yourself and others, exploring new technologies and finding new methods for storytelling to produce investigative stories with impact

You need to have:

Excellent writing and reporting skills, with the ability to make data-driven stories accessible and understandable.

A demonstrated understanding of statistics and statistical analysis.

Knowledge of federal and state legislative, regulatory, and judicial processes.

Experience requesting, cleaning, and analyzing multiple government or private datasets.

Familiarity with at least one programming language such as Python or R. Strong visualization skills and knowledge of JavaScript, including libraries such as D3 and Svelte.

Bachelor’s degree with coursework in journalism or equivalent experience.

Three-or more years of experience in journalism, preferably with experience in writing and reporting on federal legislative and/or regulatory issues.