Data Reporter - AI & Storytelling

• →Produce multiple data stories a week, including quick-turn pieces tied to breaking news published while readers are still looking for the answer.
• →Scrape, clean, join and structure public records and data sets, using AI-assisted workflows to compress the grunt work and spend time on the reporting that only a human can do.
• →Create visualizations and custom interactive pages — searchable tables, maps, lookup tools, trackers and dashboards — designed mobile-first and embedded directly in our articles.
• →Using AI coding tools, you will move from idea to working prototype in days and iterate based on what readers actually use.
• →Reach readers where they are, extending your work beyond the article page into newsletters, alerts, social video, subscriber-exclusive tools and other emerging formats
• →Interview experts, officials and ordinary people to give the numbers a pulse and build sources who bring you data before anyone else has it.
• →Hold the line on accuracy, ensuring every AI-assisted story goes through human review and carries our standard disclosure.
• →Partner with reporters, multimedia journalists, social specialists and editors across the newsroom on joint coverage and big enterprise swings.

• A bachelor's degree in journalism, communications or a related field, or equivalent education and work experience.
• Minimum of 2 years of professional journalism experience, including published work that shows you can find, analyze and report a story out of a data set.
• A clear and engaging writing style, and the ability to make a complicated number feel like a human story.
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools in a professional workflow — data analysis, document review, prototyping, research — along with an understanding of their limits and a desire to help lead expansion of those efforts in our newsroom.
• Familiarity with public data sources such as the Census Bureau, state agency portals and municipal records, including how to file and fight for records that are not posted online.
• The ability to work independently under deadline pressure and prioritize appropriately.
• A sound understanding of news writing, journalistic ethics and story structure, including the ethics of AI use and disclosure.
• Experience using social media to find stories and promote content.
• The ability to work collaboratively with editors, reporters, designers and audience specialists, and to take and act on feedback under deadline. 

Candidates should include with their application a link to a portfolio or examples of their data reporting and any interactive tools they have built.