Data Journalist, AI & Automation
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Data Journalist creating original data-driven stories for ConsumerAffairs, a consumer advocacy platform. Using quantitative analysis, visualization, AI, and automation to improve editorial production.
Responsibilities:
- Develop original, data-driven story ideas that are timely, relevant, and useful to consumers
- Research credible data sources and evaluate whether story ideas can be supported by reliable data
- Develop clear, defensible methodologies for analyzing data and measuring covered topics
- Interpret datasets to identify trends, comparisons, outliers, and other findings
- Assess what data does and does not support, including limitations
- Bring findings to life through charts, maps, tables, rankings, and other data visualizations
- Turn research and data findings into editorial direction, story angles, outlines, key findings, and guidance for freelance writers
- Coordinate with data analysts and freelance writers throughout production
- Review and quality-assure analysts’ work, including source data, calculations, formulas, methodologies, and final results
- Review writer drafts for story structure, research direction, and key findings
- Manage multiple projects, stages, deadlines, and stakeholders
- Collaborate with editors, designers, Digital PR teammates, and other stakeholders from concept through publication
- Identify opportunities to use AI and automation in research, analysis, QA, and production workflows
- Build, test, and improve AI-assisted or automated workflows for repetitive production tasks
- Experiment with tools to improve efficiency, accuracy, and consistency
- Document successful workflows and help integrate them into team production
- Critically evaluate AI-generated outputs and independently validate data, calculations, sources, and findings
- Monitor consumer trends, news, emerging datasets, and data-storytelling approaches
- Frame research findings for consumers and journalists
- Contribute ideas to improve research, production, storytelling, and visual presentation
- Use performance results and team feedback to improve future data-driven projects
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, data analytics, statistics, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
- 1-3 years of experience in journalism, content, research, data storytelling, data visualization, digital PR, or a related area
- Internships, academic projects, freelance work, and relevant coursework are welcome
- Strong quantitative and statistical reasoning
- Ability to work confidently with percentages, rates, averages, distributions, rankings, changes over time, and other common forms of analysis
- Strong writing and communication skills
- Ability to explain data and complex ideas clearly and accurately
- Interest in researching and evaluating credible data sources, including government and other publicly available datasets
- Detail-oriented and committed to accuracy
- Ability to question results that seem unusual or inconsistent
- Strong organizational skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines
- Strong proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets, including formulas, filtering, sorting, lookups, conditional logic, pivot tables, and working with larger datasets
- Working knowledge of basic statistical analysis
- Understanding of how to choose appropriate ways to analyze and compare data
- Ability to inspect, clean, transform, and validate datasets from multiple sources
- Comfortable using APIs
- Strong interest in building AI-assisted and automated workflows
- Ability to use AI tools thoughtfully for research, coding, analysis, ideation, and production while independently validating outputs and maintaining editorial standards
- Experience with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Zapier, n8n, or similar platforms is a plus
- Interest in data visualization
- Experience with Datawrapper, Flourish, Tableau, Infogram, or similar platforms is a plus
- Familiarity with AP Style and digital publishing is a plus
Benefits:
- Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Retirement Plan (401k)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Training & Development
- Collaborative work environment
- Career development opportunities
- Work-life harmony
- Professional growth opportunities
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