Visual Investigations Internship: Data-Driven Journalism

News Corp; New York (NY); On-site; USD 39,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Job summary

The Wall Street Journal internship program in New York offers college juniors and eligible graduates the chance to work with our data and visual investigations teams. You will help with data cleaning, scraping and visualization, contributing to investigative stories and open-source reporting.

You will work cross-functionally with reporters and editors, and gain hands-on experience analyzing large datasets, using OSINT to verify evidence, and pitching editorially strong visual journalism with

Qualifications

• Analytical journalism: clean, analyze and visualize data to support reporting.
• Scrape and mold unstructured data using Python, R and SQL.
• Familiarity with JavaScript, D3.js, 3D modeling, animation and OSINT reporting techniques.

Responsibilities

• Contribute reporting, data analysis, open-source reporting and visual verification to investigative projects.
• Work cross-functionally with reporters and editors across the newsroom.
• Engage in audience-first visual storytelling using maps, video, satellite imagery and interactive graphics.
• Gain hands-on experience with OSINT to verify digital evidence under rigorous editorial standards.

Skills

Data analysis

Python

SQL

R

JavaScript

D3.js

Geolocation

Video verification

OSINT

Collaboration

Tools

D3.js

Job description

The Wall Street Journal internship program in New York offers college juniors and eligible graduates the chance to work with our data and visual investigations teams. You will help with data cleaning, scraping and visualization, contributing to investigative stories and open-source reporting.

You will work cross-functionally with reporters and editors, and gain hands-on experience analyzing large datasets, using OSINT to verify evidence, and pitching editorially strong visual journalism with