Data Journalist: Visual Data Storyteller & Interactive Tools

Dmgmedia; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Daily Mail is seeking a Data Journalist to join our Deep Dive team in London. You will produce data-led stories and interactive tools for millions of readers, verifying numbers and documenting your workflow. You’ll work with the Data Editor on topics from health to crime and elections.

You will operate in an AI-assisted but human-led environment, combining data hunting, verification and visualization to deliver compelling, accurate journalism.

Qualifications

• Practical experience in data journalism or related field.
• Strong ability to wrangle, validate and document data analyses.
• Comfort with data visualisation concepts and UX principles.

Responsibilities

• Data hunting: source datasets, run FOI requests and verify figures.
• Data verification to meet editorial standards and style guidelines.
• Deliver clearly defined project components: clean data, analysis, or visuals.
• Prototype interactive charts and graphics with design and development teams.
• Collaborate with data journalists, designers and developers across newsroom.

Skills

Data journalism

Python

Excel

Data wrangling

Data visualization

FOI/gov data sourcing

Collaboration

Tools

Python

Excel

Tableau

Job description

Daily Mail is seeking a Data Journalist to join our Deep Dive team in London. You will produce data-led stories and interactive tools for millions of readers, verifying numbers and documenting your workflow. You’ll work with the Data Editor on topics from health to crime and elections.

You will operate in an AI-assisted but human-led environment, combining data hunting, verification and visualization to deliver compelling, accurate journalism.