Senior Data Analyst, Newsroom Analytics - Impact Editorial

News Corporation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wall Street Journal, part of News Corporation, seeks a Senior Data Analyst for the Newsroom Analytics team in New York. You will own analyses, dashboards, and measurement frameworks shaping editorial decisions and reader delivery.

This hands-on role requires strong SQL, Python, and collaboration with editorial, audience, and product teams. You will mentor junior analysts and help set technical standards for the team.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in data analytics, data science, or a related field.
• Track record of owning recurring reporting end-to-end and delivering analyses whose findings have shaped business decisions.
• Strong SQL skills, with experience working in large-scale data warehouses like BigQuery or Snowflake, and analytics-engineering frameworks like dbt.
• Experience designing and running A/B tests, and applying statistical methods to interpret results
• Proficiency in Python for analysis, data wrangling, and automating analytical workflows, with experience maintaining code in Git.
• Strong communication skills, with a track record of driving alignment and consensus across cross-functional groups.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted analytics partner to newsroom editorial and strategy leaders, driving audience growth, engagement and retention.
• Develop and maintain centralized dashboards and automated reports that expand self-serve access to newsroom data.
• Run deep-dive analyses on areas of opportunity, major news events, high-priority moments, and unexplained shifts in performance.
• Push measurement forward by developing novel metrics and analytical frameworks that inform newsroom strategy, and drive adoption across editorial, product, and business teams.
• Own and maintain the reporting stack, partnering with data engineering and product to keep our data accurate, fresh, and high-quality, and to strengthen the taxonomies, instrumentation, and foundational datasets the newsroom relies on.
• Design and run A/B tests and experiments in partnership with strategy, product, and tech teams, applying statistical measurement to interpret results and translate them into decisions about editorial and audience strategy.
• Mentor junior analysts, set shared standards for technical and non-technical outputs, and contribute to a shared library of methods and lessons the team can pull from.

Skills

SQL

BigQuery

Snowflake

dbt

Python

Git

Communication

Tools

SQL

BigQuery

Snowflake

dbt

Python

Git

Job description

The Wall Street Journal, part of News Corporation, seeks a Senior Data Analyst for the Newsroom Analytics team in New York. You will own analyses, dashboards, and measurement frameworks shaping editorial decisions and reader delivery.

This hands-on role requires strong SQL, Python, and collaboration with editorial, audience, and product teams. You will mentor junior analysts and help set technical standards for the team.