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Crain’s New York seeks data journalist

Crain’s New York Business is looking for a creative individual with strong analytical skills who can help us expand and deepen our signature data offerings.

The reporter’s main responsibility will be to produce Crain’s renowned business lists; contribute data reporting to the newspaper’s editorial team; and help produce the weekly and yearly Stats and the City column.

This is an ideal position for a research-minded reporter who can work on both short- and long-term projects, find and develop a story in spreadsheets and tell stories through data visualizations.

Strongly preferred
•Experience with cleaning, manipulating, analyzing and displaying data
•Familiarity with financial documents like 10-K and tax form 990s
•Familiarity with computer programming languages like JavaScript and jQuery
•Experience with statistical analysis tools like R or SPSS

Requirements

•Strong organizational and communication skills with keen attention to detail and problem solving
•Master’s degree in journalism or three years’ professional experience in a newsroom
•Ability to find newsworthy stories in government, financial and other sources of data
•Ability to manage multiple projects at once with a variety of deadlines
•Basic web development: HTML, CSS

To apply, send clips, a resume and a cover letter to executive editor Jeremy Smerd at jsmerd@crainsnewyork.com

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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