Senior News Visual Journalist - Data & Investigations

SPH Media; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

SPH Media is seeking a data-driven journalist and designer to help craft compelling visual stories for the newsroom. You will collaborate with reporters to uncover data-driven narratives and verify sources while building engaging visuals.

The role involves using data visualization tools, performing analysis, and contributing to the overall storytelling strategy with a focus on accuracy and audience engagement.

Qualifications

• Experience in journalism and reporting.
• 1
• Ability to use data visualization and infographics design.
• 1
• Familiarity with front-end web development.
• 1
• Experience with data analysis programming.
• 1
• Familiar with data storytelling and visual trends.
• 1

Responsibilities

• Write, design and help the newsroom's developers build visual stories, including data visualisations.
• Carry out investigative journalism/research with journalists using data and verify data sources.
• Use statistics and data science tools for parsing, scraping and wrangling; access APIs as needed.
• Manage workflow for data-driven and visual stories in the newsroom.
• Use analytics to evaluate stories and propose workflow improvements.

Skills

Journalism experience

Data visualization

Infographics design

Front-end development

Data analysis programming

Education

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

Tools

d3.js

Mapbox

AWS (serverless)

SQL

Python

R

Perl

Job description

SPH Media is seeking a data-driven journalist and designer to help craft compelling visual stories for the newsroom. You will collaborate with reporters to uncover data-driven narratives and verify sources while building engaging visuals.

The role involves using data visualization tools, performing analysis, and contributing to the overall storytelling strategy with a focus on accuracy and audience engagement.