Description
Report and explain news through data analysis, visualization, and traditional reporting across digital, print, and broadcast platforms. Collect, clean, and analyze datasets; build charts, maps, and interactives; and translate findings into clear, accurate stories.
- • Write data-driven stories, explainers, columns, or scripts.
- • Collaborate with anchors and producers to present findings on air.
- • Identify data-rich angles on local, national, or global issues and pitch stories.
- • Analyze and interpret datasets, documents, and research to surface newsworthy insights.
- • Evaluate leads and tips and test hypotheses with data.
- • Research context, methodology, and limitations to ensure accuracy.
- • Interview subject-matter experts, data owners, and affected people.
- • Acquire data via scraping, APIs, FOIA requests, and public records.
- • Clean, validate, and document data, code, and assumptions.
- • Select key findings and visuals and structure clear data narratives.
- • Produce charts, maps, and interactives to present results across platforms.
- • Build and maintain relationships with credible data sources and analysts.
- • Publish stories with transparent methods, caveats, and reproducible materials when possible.
- • Revise copy, code, and visuals to meet editorial standards and deadlines.
- • Review datasets, notebooks, and notes to isolate verifiable facts.
- • Deliver quick-turn analyses and graphics for breaking news events.
- • Edit and fact-check copy and visuals for statistical and stylistic accuracy.
- • Cover specialized beats—such as health, climate, elections, business, or crime—using data.
- • Choose formats and lengths (interactive, scrollytelling, broadcast graphics, briefs) appropriate to the data.
- • Report and file from the field, collecting and transmitting data and visuals remotely.
- • Cross-check figures against primary sources, codebooks, and peer-reviewed research.
- • Coordinate with photo, video, design, and engineering teams on visual storytelling.
- • Explain findings and methods on live or recorded broadcasts, podcasts, or panels.
- • Export, optimize, and QA charts, maps, and tables for web, print, and social.
- • Record interviews and annotate visuals with narrative captions and source notes.
- • Develop recurring data features, trackers, rankings, or dashboards.
- • Engage audiences on social and in newsletters, addressing questions about data and methods.
- • Publish methodology notes, datasets, and code when newsroom policy allows.
- • Coordinate and assign data tasks to reporters, designers, or developers as needed.
- • Uphold ethical data practices, privacy, and fairness while providing clear context and analysis.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
