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WSJ seeks a graphics reporter

The Wall Street Journal is looking for a Graphics Reporter to join our award-winning visuals team based in New York. You will work closely with other reporters, editors and visual journalists to create news and features graphics and data visualizations for all platforms.

This job reports to the Visual Editor overseeing enterprise, investigations, Exchange, and Life & Arts.

You Will:

  • Collaborate with reporters, editors and other visual journalists to generate new ideas.
  • Create concepts for new approaches to visual storytelling.
  • Create graphics and interactives for digital platforms, and work with visual colleagues focused on print, as needed.
  • Create graphics and interactives for both breaking news and longer-term projects.
  • Research and report original visual stories.
  • Contribute to editing other visual stories that are created in the department.

You Have:

  • Prior experience in a newsroom, with excellent news, data and design judgment.
  • A creative vision and willingness to share and collaborate on new ideas.
  • Strong visual journalism skills with at least one or two specialties that might include design, coding, 3D, animation or data visualization.
  • A good understanding and appreciation of business news and charting.
  • Good knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and its libraries, especially D3.
  • An interest in data journalism and associated tools, such as Excel, SQL, R and Python.
  • Good knowledge of responsive design and best practices for designing stories for mobile devices.
  • Good knowledge of layout, typography, color and interaction design.
  • The initiative to take on and learn new tasks in a fast-moving environment.

You Are:

  • Able to work quickly and efficiently under tight deadlines.
  • Able to help reporters and editors learn new skills that will contribute to their visual storytelling.
  • An excellent communicator

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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