Data journalist – Sky News
Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe’s leading entertainment brand. Our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work – a place where you can be yourself and let your skills shine.
Sky News is looking for a Data Journalist to join our pioneering Data & Forensics team. It’s a dynamic and exciting role that puts you at the heart of the biggest stories, bringing extra value and insight to Sky’s award-winning journalism.
You will deliver impactful news stories across a wide range of topics, visualising complex ideas in a clear, accurate, creative, and intelligent manner. You’ll need a good understanding of statistics as well as strong journalistic judgment and editorial values.
What you’ll do:
- Find, clean and analyse data to produce stories for Sky’s digital and broadcast platforms.
- Examine and report on published data to provide context, analysis and news lines on the biggest stories of the day or identify new stories.
- Pitch, develop and deliver original data-driven investigations and come up with ideas as to how they might be presented.
- Work either independently or alongside designers and developers to create compelling visualisations and interactives.
- Negotiate with public officials, businesses and academics for data and open records and gather information via Freedom of Information requests.
- Lead the way in explaining data journalism to our audiences.
What you’ll bring:
- We want passion, drive and a self-starter who can visualise complex ideas in a clear, accurate, creative, and intelligent manner.
- A good understanding of statistics and statistical analysis.
- A good understanding of how to visualise data, perhaps using tools like Flourish, Datawrapper, QGIS or d3.
- Proficiency at writing detailed and accessible articles presenting data analysis.
- Strong journalistic judgment and editorial values.
- Understanding of Excel and Google Sheets is essential.
- A knowledge of programming language for data analysis, such as R, Python or SQL is preferred.
- Knowledge of web development programming languages like HTML/CSS and JavaScript is an advantage.
