Chicago Sun-Times

Journalist

• Builds and supports editorial tools and systems for data journalism and innovative storytelling.
• Deploys scrapers, ETL processes and monitoring services to build data repositories for reporting and production.
• Collaborates with reporting teams to identify important data sets, brainstorm coverage ideas and find gaps in project plans.
• Explores and analyzes data for relevance and story potential and creates tools and dashboards to make data and analyses more accessible to the newsroom.
• Helps configure pipelines and templates for presenting data in a meaningful way to internal and external users.
• May pitch, report and write data-driven stories, including visualizations, for wbez.org and other digital platforms.
• Plans and identifies strong data and graphics opportunities across the newsroom.
• Reviews data, analyses, stories, visualizations and graphics to ensure they uphold standards.

Data Journalist, Public Safety