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CNBC.com seeks digital journalist

You will be a self-starter, brimming with original ideas on how to best apply data-driven journalism. You will be eager to finds ways complement news stories, when appropriate, or to identify original stories that can be carried by all outlets. You will be able to delve beneath headline figures and then confidently and succinctly explain the fuller picture to our audiences as well as other colleagues from CNBC.

You will be excited about developing the way that data is interpreted and presented online via desktop, tablet and mobile as well as on TV.

You will be able to work closely and productively with journalists from across CNBC, as well as with web developers and technical designers, to achieve the very best award-winning data journalism.

You will need to be able to work to tight and demanding deadlines.

Responsibilities
– To generate ideas for data-driven stories and for how they might be developed and visualized.
– To explore those ideas using statistical tools – and present them to wider stakeholders from a non-statistical background.
– To report on and analyze data in a way that contributes to telling compelling stories on an array of news platforms.
– To collaborate with reporters, editors, designers and developers to bring those stories to publication.
– To explore and summarize data using relational database software or to visualize and to find patterns
– To use statistical tools to identify significant data trends.

Qualifications/Requirements

– A good understanding of statistics and statistical analysis.
– A strong grasp of how to clean, parse and query data as well as database management.
– Demonstrable experience of visualizing data and using visualization tools such as Tableau, Refine and Fusion Tables.
– Expertise with Excel
– Must be willing to work in Englewood Cliffs, NJ
– Must be willing to submit to a background check

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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