Remote Data Journalist & Audience Analytics Specialist

The-Chronicle-of-Philanthrop; United States; Remote; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote — United States

Shape data journalism function

Collaborative newsroom environment

Job summary

The Chronicle of Philanthropy is seeking a Data Journalist & Audience Analyst who can combine data storytelling with newsroom analytics. You will build dashboards in Data Studio/Looker Studio, run BigQuery queries, and translate numbers into accessible stories for editors and readers.

This newly created role sits at the intersection of editorial and audience teams. It is a full-time, remote, 1-year position with possible extension based on funding and performance.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in data journalism, news analytics, or a closely related role at a news or media organization.
• Proficiency in SQL and at least one scripting language (Python or R).
• Hands-on experience querying large datasets in BigQuery or a similar cloud data warehouse.
• Experience with Google Analytics and Google Looker Studio (Data Studio).
• Demonstrated ability to produce data visualizations or graphics for a news audience.
• Strong storytelling instincts — you know how to find the angle and communicate it clearly.
• Ability to explain data and analytical findings to non-technical colleagues and readers.
• Self-starter who takes ownership of projects and drives work forward without heavy direction.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with editorial, audience, and business teams.
• Strong ability to manage and balance multiple competing priorities under deadline pressure.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve Data Studio dashboards that give teams real-time visibility into key metrics.
• Ensure reporting consistency and data accuracy across internal tools and platforms.
• Own the ongoing health and evolution of our performance reporting infrastructure.
• Perform ad-hoc queries and analysis directly from our BigQuery database to support editorial, audience, and business requests.
• Support business initiatives and subscriber analysis in close collaboration with the marketing team.
• Report and produce data-driven stories, with a focus on data visualizations and graphics for publication.
• Pull, clean, and analyze datasets to surface newsworthy findings for the editorial team.
• Collaborate with reporters and editors to support data needs on investigative and enterprise projects.
• Develop repeatable processes for sourcing, vetting, and working with public and proprietary datasets.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data storytelling

Data visualization

Cross-functional collaboration

Deadline-driven

Tools

BigQuery

Data Studio

Looker Studio

Google Analytics

Tableau

Flourish

Datawrapper

Job description

The Chronicle of Philanthropy is seeking a Data Journalist & Audience Analyst who can combine data storytelling with newsroom analytics. You will build dashboards in Data Studio/Looker Studio, run BigQuery queries, and translate numbers into accessible stories for editors and readers.

This newly created role sits at the intersection of editorial and audience teams. It is a full-time, remote, 1-year position with possible extension based on funding and performance.