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We are authoritative, credible, responsible, trusted and a part of the nation’s cultural heritage.\nYour team: The Times and The Sunday Times are some of the oldest and most respected news brands in the world. The data team offers an essential service to both newsrooms, fact-checking misleading claims, generating stories and informing our readers. Our work has won numerous awards for data design, statistical excellence and investigative journalism.\nYour role: We are looking for a Data Visualisation Journalist to join our data team.\nYou will build interactives, calculators and data-led stories that work across multiple platforms. You will help maintain data infrastructure the team relies on, and help build out thetimes.com/data.\nWe are looking for a journalist who codes, or a developer with real news instinct: someone who can take a story from raw dataset to published interactive. You will also keep on top of the latest trends in data and graphics journalism.\nApply with a covering letter and CV by November 29.\nDay to day you will:\nBuild bespoke interactives, calculators and dataviz to newsroom deadlines.\n\nHelp build and manage databases, pipelines and scrapers for big team projects like Times Data.\n\nPitch, research and write data-led stories and investigations.\n\nTrack the evolution of digital graphics across the industry and bring the best of it into our journalism.\n\nWhat we’re looking for from you:\nExperience building data visualisations for the web.\n\nFront-end development skills: JavaScript and experience with a framework such as React or Svelte.\n\nProficiency with a visualisation library such as D3, and mapping tools like QGIS, Mapbox or Leaflet.\n\nProficiency in R or Python for collecting, cleaning and analysing data.\n\nFamiliarity with using AI models for data journalism.\n\nWorking knowledge of SQL, Git and experience designing or maintaining databases.\n\nStrong news judgement and knowledge of The Times and The Sunday Times.\n\nAbility to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.\n\nWe are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. 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We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 13 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.\nBenefits\nSome of our benefits include:\nMaternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks\n\nWide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access\n\nPrivate medical insuranceincluding coverage for pre-existing conditions\n\nDiscounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes\n\n‘Bikes for Work’and ‘Electric Car’ scheme\n\nUp to 60% discount on Harper Collins books\n\nAccess to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. 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