Job Description
About the position
- Responsibilities
- Finding all newly published political polls and accurately entering the data into a database
- Researching public websites to discover new opportunities in the data that is available
- Calling and emailing pollsters and election officials to request data
- Fact-checking articles, graphics and poll crosstabs
- Categorizing and cleaning data
- Creating project plans when tasked with finding data in a new area of interest, including documenting risks to comprehensiveness and accuracy
- Keeping good records that are accessible to colleagues on how to find information in the future or who to contact to get the most reliable information
- Working with colleagues to ensure the information we collect is reflected in our coverage and available to readers
- Maintaining documentation and making it available to colleagues on points of contact and best practices
- May contribute to stories in your area of responsibility and work on other projects as needed and available
- Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.
- Requirements
- 2+ years of relevant experience
- Passion for political data
- Experience working with election-related datasets
- Demonstrated ability to meet inflexible deadlines
- Demonstrated attention to detail and ability to work independently
- Demonstrated experience maintaining complex spreadsheets, including manual data entry and data cleaning
- Experience creating complicated spreadsheets from scratch, including creating a new data structure and long-term flexibility
- Strong interpersonal skills; you should be excited to invest the time to build relationships with sources
- Nice-to-haves
- Experience working in a newsroom
- Knowledge of what's possible using scripting languages, such as Javascript, Python, PHP, R, etc.
- Advanced experience writing formulas in spreadsheets, such as using pivot tables, cross-referencing data, etc.
- Experience querying data stored in MySQL, Postgres, Bigtable, etc. databases
- Benefits
- 401k
- health_insurance
- dental_insurance
- vision_insurance
- life_insurance
- disability_insurance
- paid_holidays
- paid_volunteer_time
- tuition_reimbursement
- professional_development
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