Sr. Data Visuals Editor, CNN Job at Warner Bros. Discovery, Washington DC

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  • Warner Bros. Discovery
  • Washington DC

Job Description

CNN’s Climate & Weather team is seeking a journalist to create graphics, interactives and an automated library of data visualizations to help inform our audiences during extreme weather and personalize the most urgent crisis of our time. This is a unique role in which you will work within a specialized team on high-impact journalism. Applicants for this position should have experience using programming tools to work with large, raster datasets, and the skills to visualize that data in the best way to help our audience understand the risk and impact of extreme weather and climate change. The ideal candidate has strong data analysis skills alongside software development or programming experience. They are comfortable working with large, global datasets that span space and time. This candidate has honed the ability to contextualize complex topics for a general audience. They have their finger on the pulse of emerging trends in visual news. Finally, the successful candidate is a team-oriented collaborator who works well with and elevates their teammates and colleagues across the company. Responsibilities include working with teammates to develop data-driven stories and visualizations focused on climate change, weather and climate solutions; creating and editing graphics and visuals, including maps, charts, interactives and other visual storytelling formats; working alongside other data visuals journalists and reporters in the CNN newsroom; working with subject-matter experts to cultivate strong sourcing for data related to the beat and seeking out new sources; ensuring analyses, stories and visualizations uphold rigorous journalistic standards; developing an understanding of the broader CNN digital infrastructure; networking and collaborating with other visuals and product teams in the newsroom to share data and skills. Qualifications include at least 5 years of newsroom or comparable web visualization experience and experience working with climate, weather, environment data; high proficiency in modern web development technologies and workflows (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, git, Svelte); high proficiency in data analysis and coding (Python, SQL, R, etc.); experience with large raster/gridded data sets; mapping and graphics skills (D3, AI2html, QGIS, Mapbox); experience with data pipelines such as Github Actions workflows; ability to translate complex story and data ideas to the broader newsroom and audience; desire to experiment and push storytelling forward and think creatively about data use in journalism; ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced newsroom environment; impeccable news and story-framing judgment; a collaborative, team-oriented attitude; strong attention to detail.

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