Data Journalist

A data journalist at KQED is an accountability-minded journalist who can work together with other reporters to generate impact and real-world change. We’re looking for a data reporter who is collaborative and is excited to coach and train reporters with different levels of data skills.

A key component of this job will be creating and sharing data products, including visualizations, that power local reporting.

This position will work with the KQED reporters and journalists to manipulate and work with data and use it to tell compelling and important stories.

KQED envisions a public media organization with a culture that centers on human dignity, equity, and belonging. This will enable us to better serve and reflect the Bay Area through diverse and inclusive storytelling.

We value the contributions of marginalized people in society — including Black, Indigenous, and all people of color, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people — and we believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do, and we strongly encourage members of these communities to apply.

KQED Code of Ethics

The mission that drives us:

KQED provide citizens of Northern California with a community-supported alternative to commercial media. We provide citizens with the knowledge they need to make informed decisions; convene community dialogue; bring the arts to everyone and engage audiences to share their stories. We help students and teachers thrive in 21st-century classrooms, and take people of all ages on journeys of exploration- exposing them to new people, places and ideas.

This role will work hybrid between working in KQED's newly renovated headquarters and working remotely.

Salary Information: $44.71-$52.88 Hourly

The successful candidate will be required to join The Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA).

Essential Functions:

• Produces a variety of editorial content for all platforms, from radio and audio to the web, mobile and engagement.
• Create visual journalism with data
• Make public records requests
• Clean and analyze data
• Help design and lead data-driven collaborative investigations
• Train and coach reporters in California in interpreting datasets to identify and tell stories of vital importance to their communities
• Raise data maturity of newsroom
• Identify best ways to make data shareable to anyone who might be interested in working with datasets
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge/Experience Required:

• Experience analyzing data and knowledge of how to use relational datasets.
• Newsroom experience, either locally or nationally, especially involving stories that are centered around telling people’s stories
• Experience with and appreciation of the challenges of collaborative journalism
• Excellent listening and communication skills
• Ability to stay focused, organized and proactive. You’ll be working with a number of journalists across organizations, often dealing with several different editors.
• Ability to edit data analysis conducted by other reporters, and work with editors and reporters to develop methodologies.

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may be required to perform other related duties as necessary to meet the ongoing needs of this organization.