Data Reporter

Salary Range: $55,000-$65,000

This position will be Hybrid in the office/market 3 days per week, and those days can be flexible in consultation with your manager.

Denver Business Journal is looking for a data reporter to join our team. The ideal candidate will be a spreadsheet master with the journalism chops to build on our newsroom’s strong legacy of using data to drive essential, exclusive business coverage.

The data reporter is able to gather and analyze original data on the industries, companies and trends driving business decisions in the metro Denver region and communicate what they uncover using both text and visual storytelling techniques.

The data reporter’s work begins with building our proprietary Lists (ranked on gathered information such as revenue and square footage, depending on the list) but this individual will dig deeper, going beyond the rankings to tell stories significant to our business community.
Skills & Experience

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Two-plus years as a journalist with a track record of finding stories in data and/or using data in stories.
Highly organized: Able to juggle multiple projects in order to hit various deadlines.
Self-motivated: Able to suggest and initiate new research projects — with guidance from editors — then contact sources to develop ideas.
Attentive to detail: Able to follow AP Style and layout guidelines on Lists, and create surveys with clear requirements for respondents.
Persistent: Willing and able to make multiple efforts to follow up with company representatives, particularly those on previous year’s Lists, to get updated information or if survey responses seem odd or inconsistent.
Skilled at data management, survey techniques and computer-assisted research and reporting methods, knowing how to structure and normalize large data sets and databases.
Reporting experience with data such as the SEC or EDGAR, FDIC, the Census and the BLS is a plus.
Denver community experience is a plus.