Data Editor

The newly launched Logan Center for Investigative Reporting at Temple University’s Klein College of Media and Communication is seeking Data Editor to empower some of the Center’s most ambitious work. The Data Editor will be part of the core editorial team, and will have a significant role in finding, developing, and reporting the Center’s revelatory enterprise and investigative stories. Launched last year with a $1.2 million funding grant from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, the Center will report exclusively on the issues facing Philadelphia and other large American cities, including gun violence, economic inequality, education, and health disparities, crumbling infrastructure and eroding trust in institutions. The Data Editor will lead the Data Desk, a “teaching hospital” of sorts for student journalists interested in data and investigative reporting. will be responsible for obtaining and analyzing government and commercially available data and contributing reporting and analysis. The key to building this talent pipeline will be building and maintaining partnerships with professional media organizations, especially in and around Philadelphia. For example, Klein currently has a partnership with LNP Media in Lancaster, PA, helping them build a data journalism program modeled after Data Desk. The Data Editor, in collaboration with Journalism faculty, will help maintain this and other partnerships by building a pipeline of talented student journalists ready for the job market. Performs other duties as assigned. This is a grant-funded position.