Analyst, Newsroom Data

Nashville Public Radio; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a Data Analyst to join the newsroom data team in New York. You will build dashboards, write SQL, and support analyses that inform editorial, audience, and product decisions.

The role emphasizes using AI tools to accelerate work, collaborating with senior analysts, and growing into independent ownership while maintaining high data quality and clear communication.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years in data analytics, BI, or related field or relevant internship/project.
• Proficient SQL skills with non-trivial datasets.
• Experience with modern BI/dashboarding tools (Looker, Tableau, Mode).
• Curiosity and fast learner with ability to pick up new concepts.
• Strong written and verbal communication; explains data to non-technical partners.

Responsibilities

• Write SQL to translate requests into clean, scoped queries and communicate results.
• Build and maintain dashboards and recurring reports for self-serve access.
• Support deep-dive analyses for major events, high-priority moments, and performance shifts.
• Troubleshoot data quality issues and work with data engineering to resolve.
• Contribute to A/B tests and analysis; grow into independent ownership.
• Learn taxonomies and datasets, maintain documentation and patterns.

Skills

SQL

BI Tools

Communication

Python

Data Warehousing

Git

A/B Testing

Journalism interest

Tools

Looker

Tableau

Mode

BigQuery

Job description

WSJ Newsroom | Data Analyst (September 2026)

Title: Data Analyst, Newsroom Analytics

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a Data Analyst to join our newsroom data team, reporting to the Senior Manager, Newsroom Analytics. You will work alongside our senior analysts to produce the reports, dashboards, and analyses the newsroom relies on to make editorial, audience, and product decisions every day.

This role is a chance to build real analytical range in a fast-moving newsroom environment. You will spend most of your time in SQL, pulling data, building and maintaining dashboards, and helping the newsroom get answers quickly. You will use AI tools to accelerate this work, building lightweight utilities and automations that improve efficiency across the team and free up time for deeper analysis. You will collaborate closely with more senior colleagues as you take on progressively more independent work, from ad hoc analyses to experiment analysis and measurement projects.

This position will be based in our New York office.

You Will

• Write SQL to answer questions from newsroom editorial, audience, and product partners, translating requests into clean, well-scoped queries and clearly communicated results.
• Build and maintain dashboards and recurring reports that expand self-serve access to newsroom data.
• Support deep-dive analyses on major news events, high-priority moments, and shifts in performance.
• Help keep the reporting stack reliable by troubleshooting data quality issues, tracing problems back to their source, and partnering with data engineering to resolve them.
• Contribute to A/B tests and experiment analysis in partnership with senior analysts, growing into independent experiment ownership over time.
• Learn the newsroom's taxonomies, instrumentation, and foundational datasets, and help maintain shared documentation and analytical patterns the team pulls from.

You Have

• 1 to 2 years in data analytics, business intelligence, or a related field, or an equivalent internship and project background.
• Proficient SQL skills, with experience writing queries against non-trivial datasets.
• Comfort with a modern BI or dashboarding tool (Looker, Tableau, Mode, or similar).
• Curiosity and speed in picking up new technical concepts and frameworks, and a track record of getting productive on unfamiliar stacks.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to explain data clearly to non-technical partners.
• Care for accuracy and detail in work the newsroom will act on.

Standout candidates will have strengths in one or more of the following:

• Experience with large-scale data warehouses like BigQuery or Snowflake, or with dbt.
• Familiarity with Python for analysis, data wrangling, or automation, and comfort maintaining code in Git.
• Exposure to A/B testing and applied statistics.
• A background or strong interest in journalism, media, or content, and enthusiasm for driving journalistic outcomes.
• Comfort using AI/LLM tooling to speed up analytical workflows.

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. EEO/Disabled/Vets

Reasonable Accommodation

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Business Area

Dow Jones - News - WSJ

Job Category

Data Analytics/Warehousing & Business Intelligence

Base Pay Range: 90,000 - 100,000

We're committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.

For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.

For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.

The Wall Street Journal is a global news organization that provides leading news, information, commentary and analysis. The Wall Street Journal engages readers across print, digital, mobile, social, audio, and video. Building on its heritage as the preeminent source of global business and financial news, the Journal includes coverage of U.S. and world news, politics, arts, culture, lifestyle, sports, and health. It holds more than three dozen Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding journalism. The Wall Street Journal is published by Dow Jones, a division of News Corp (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).