Data and Digital Graphics Journalist

**Data and digital graphics journalist**
The data and digital graphics journalist will produce graphics, interactives and data-led stories for the Times’s digital editions, working with colleagues across both newsrooms and senior news editors.

**Responsibilities**:

- Work as part of the data and digital graphics team producing graphics, interactives and data-led stories as agreed with senior editors, while also working on longer-term investigative projects or features
- Pitch project and investigation ideas to the news desks and senior features editors
- Understand the news values of The Times and The Sunday Times and be immersed with news and current affairs
- Curious and actively involved in tracking the evolution of digital graphics across the media industry
- Help to improve data literacy in the newsroom through training and collaboration with reporters

**Skills and experience**:

- Journalist with strong news judgement
- Proficiency in using one or more programming languages, such as R or Python, for data collection and analysis
- Proficiency in spreadsheets and statistical methods: collecting, summarising, analysing and interpreting variable numerical data using Excel or equivalent
- Proficiency using APIs and scraping websites
- Experience using visualisation technologies for digital graphics (e.g. D3, QGIS, Adobe Illustrator)
- Highly organised
- Able to collaborate with others and work well in groups
- Can clearly articulate story ideas
- Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines

**About the digital team**:
The Times and The Sunday Times represent a combined 400 years of covering news and providing comment and analysis in the UK and the world.

We are authoritative, credible, responsible, trusted and a part of the nation’s cultural heritage.

This role will join our cross-title digital strategy team. The team is charged with finding and telling stories on our digital platforms in the most appropriate formats and empowering the newsroom to present stories in new and innovative ways.

**Life at News**: At News UK we believe our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want the ways we work to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but do provide multiple flexible working options. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion **diversity and inclusion**,** we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the**Health and Wellbeing** of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.

In addition we also offer:

- A generous **pension** **scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
- 30 days **holiday** **and up to 4 **volunteering** **days per year;
- **Maternity** **leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & **paternity** **leave up to 2 weeks;
- Wide range of **training** **available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.