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About the role

  • Data editor producing consumer-focused personal finance journalism for The Globe and Mail. Analyzing datasets and building visual, data-driven stories and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

  • Gather, process, analyze and visualize data to support daily and enterprise personal finance and business journalism
  • Collaborate with reporters, editors and visual journalists on data-driven stories, emphasizing consumer-focused projects
  • Spot check data work completed by team members and newsroom journalists
  • Build and maintain tools that aid reporters and editors in data reporting
  • Serve as an ambassador for data literacy across the newsroom
  • Work with a multidisciplinary team of developers, data journalists and visual editors
  • Contribute to long-term investigative projects, breaking news and immersive story formats

Requirements

  • Strong news judgment with a good sense of how data best serves the story and the reader
  • Experience working on data-driven stories and projects in a newsroom, particularly with a business or consumer journalism focus
  • Experience with acquiring and maintaining datasets of varying sizes
  • Experience with data analysis tools like Excel or Google Sheets
  • Experience with coding languages like Python or R
  • Experience visualizing data with a demonstrated understanding of best practices for graphic presentation of information in journalism
  • Ability to juggle multiple projects of varying deadlines and sizes
  • Cover letter with resume written by the applicant, not AI
  • Additional asset: Experience integrating AI into data work or enthusiasm for doing so
  • Additional asset: Experience working with APIs
  • Additional asset: Experience with database management best practices and relevant AWS services
  • Additional asset: Knowledge of available business-related datasets
  • Additional asset: Familiarity with data visualization libraries
  • Must work a minimum of two days a week in the Toronto office

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Support programs
  • Training and mentorship opportunities
  • Competitive compensation
  • Hybrid work environment
  • Generous vacation
  • Parental leave top-up
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Competitive health and dental benefits
  • Defined Benefit pension plan
  • Annual wellness subsidy
  • On-site chiropractor and registered massage therapist
  • Employee and family assistance program
  • Free digital subscription to globeandmail.com
  • 40% off other Globe products
  • Education assistance for external training courses
  • Lateral and upward advancement opportunities
  • Formal and informal mentorship programs
  • Internal and external training and development opportunities

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

AWSPython

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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