Fwd: JOB: Computational Journalist, Investigative Reporter, Assistant Political Editor at The Dallas Morning News

[Georgia Bullen]

On Monday, March 7, 2016 at 7:04:46 PM UTC-5, Hannah Wise wrote:

Hi Mafiosas! 

I am a breaking news reporter/designer who focuses on politics at The Dallas Morning News. I have worked at TDMN for almost two years and I am so excited about the direction the organization is going. 

The newsroom has been undergoing a reorganization over the past year. I know that sounds scary and ominous but it is one of the most exciting things. We are shifting reporting to be "obsession" based (very Quartz-like) and the newsroom is restructured into verticals. We are focusing on how we can better serve our readers and answering their questions rather than telling them what to care about or what we think is important. 

Over the past year we've hired a new executive editor, Mike Wilson, formerly of The Tampa Bay Times and five thirty eight, and managing editor Robyn Tomlin, formerly of Thunderdome and the Pew Research Center. 

I can't say enough positive things about the culture here and the willingness to try new things.

If you're interested or have questions, please reach out to me via email (hw...@dallasnews.com) or on Twitter @hwise29. 

Here is a link to descriptions for Director of Photography, Assistant Political Editor, College Sports Writer, Investigative Reporter and Washington DC Reporter jobs. 

Below is a description for our Computational Journalist position from our GitHub.

Computational Journalist

The Dallas Morning News is looking for a computational journalist to join its newsroom.

The right candidate has a complementary mix of code skills and journalism chops. She or he will help lead a new emphasis on developing our interactive, graphic and otherwise visual storytelling online while continuing The News’ tradition of statistically sophisticated and data-dense journalism.

The position will be part of The News’ Data and News Applications team, but whoever fills it will range across beats to support data-driven graphic journalism all over the newsroom. She or he will build their own storytelling through online graphics, dataviz and maps; help develop newsroom dataviz tools and craft interactives and newsapps with backend developers, designers and beat reporters.

The News is currently undergoing a reorganization under new management with a reorientation toward digital production and audience growth. The team this candidate will join will be at its largest in The News’ history, supported by other digital producers and interactive developers in the newsroom.

The right candidate has sound news judgment, is a facile writer of code (and sometimes copy), works easily across departments within the newsroom and coolly manages deadlines.

Applicants should:

• Have at least one year of experience turning careful, data-driven analyses into compelling graphics and dataviz using a web-native visualization library like D3.js.
• Be proficient with front-end technologies: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Experience with a front-end JavaScript framework like Backbone or Angular is a plus.
• Have experience cleaning complex datasets for analysis and visualization, hopefully within a web-standard database like PostgreSQL.
• Have sound understanding of basic statistical principles. Competence with statistical software like R and dataviz packages like ggplot2 earns bonus points.
• Have experience producing clean code and collaborating on development projects. Made open-source software before? Awesome. Tell us about it.
• Have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.

Interested? Apply here and also please send a note about your interest and links to relevant code work to jmcc...@dallasnews.com.

Questions? Contact Jon McClure at jmcc...@dallasnews.com or submit an issue on this repository.