The Hindustan Times seeks a data journalist to join its award-winning News Apps and Interactives team at the earliest possible date. We’d like you to work with us in HT’s newsroom in New Delhi, but we’ll consider great candidates who want to work remotely.
We are journalists, data scientists, visualisation designers, and web developers. To be a good fit for our team, you must be curious, energetic, and excited about making creative projects surrounding the most important issues and events of our times.
- JOURNALISM – Experience working as a professional reporter, publishing stories regularly, and juggling daily reporting with long-term feature and enterprise work.
- DATA GATHERING – Web scraping, public records requests, Tabula, etc.
- DATA ANALYSIS – R, Python, Excel, OpenRefine, knowledge of statistics, etc.
- DATA VISUALISATON – Creating charts and maps, preferably interactive ones with Javascript and related libraries like D3.js and TopoJSON, but also static ones with tools like Adobe Illustrator, ai2html and QGIS.
- WEB DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN – HTML, CSS, Javascript and related libraries like jQuery.
You don’t have to be able to do all five of these things, but you should be great at at least two of these things and have a strong desire to learn the rest. We improve with every project, and we’re always helping each other get better. It's a lot of fun.
We are accepting applications on a rolling basis. If you want to apply but have some questions first, please send an email to [email protected].