Senior Digital Graphics Journalist: Data-Driven Visuals

sph media limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SPH Media in Singapore is seeking a versatile data journalist and visual storyteller to write, design and help the newsroom’s developers build compelling data-driven stories, including interactive graphics and maps.

You will collaborate with reporters to source and verify data, use HTML, CSS and JavaScript (React/Vue/Svelte) to deliver visualisations, and apply data analysis techniques. Familiarity with d3.js/Mapbox is a plus and you should be comfortable with flexible hours.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, graphic design, data science, statistics or computer science.
• Experience in journalism and reporting is an advantage.
• Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and at least one frontend framework (React, VueJS, Svelte) is essential.
• Experience with data visualisation libraries such as d3.js and Mapbox. Experience with serverless computing (AWS) is an advantage.
• Experience with one or more common databases, SQL, scripting languages (R, Python, Perl) is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Write, design and help the team's developers build visual stories for the newsroom, including data visualisations and a wide variety of visual formats for storytelling.
• Carry out investigative journalism/research with journalists using data, including finding/verifying data sources.
• Use various statistics and data science tools for data parsing, scraping and wrangling. Access APIs or external data sources where necessary.
• Manage workflow and process for data-driven and visual stories in the newsroom
• Use analytics to evaluate stories and propose changes to workflow, concepts

Skills

Journalism

Data visualization

Front-end development

Data analysis

Statistics

Graphic design

React/Vue/Svelte

D3/Mapbox

Python/R

SQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in journalism, graphic design, data science, statistics or computer science

Tools

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

React/Vue/Svelte

d3.js/Mapbox

AWS (serverless)

SQL/Python/R

Job description

SPH Media in Singapore is seeking a versatile data journalist and visual storyteller to write, design and help the newsroom’s developers build compelling data-driven stories, including interactive graphics and maps.

You will collaborate with reporters to source and verify data, use HTML, CSS and JavaScript (React/Vue/Svelte) to deliver visualisations, and apply data analysis techniques. Familiarity with d3.js/Mapbox is a plus and you should be comfortable with flexible hours.