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About the Role

The Daily Mail seeks an enthusiastic Data Journalist for its award-winning Deep Dive team in London. This role involves producing data-led stories and interactive tools for a global digital-first department focused on data, graphics, interactive development, and visual storytelling. The team is collaborative and aims to make data journalism accessible and popular. You will work in an AI-assisted environment, verifying and approving all final content.

Responsibilities

• Research and source datasets, file FOIs, and analyze data.
• Ensure all published statistics are accurate and adhere to editorial standards.
• Contribute to larger projects by completing defined tasks such as data cleaning, analysis, and chart building.
• Collaborate with designers and developers to prototype interactive tools and graphics.
• Liaise with newsroom specialists and champion work across the department.

Requirements

• Practical experience in data journalism or a related field (quantitative research, data communications, data analytics).
• Strong data wrangling skills in Excel and ideally Python (or similar).
• Ability to learn quickly and independently.
• Proficiency with percentages, rates, and averages, with a critical eye for data.
• Understanding of data visualisation and UX principles.
• Familiarity with modern data visualisation tools.
• A portfolio of trusted data sources is a bonus.
• Cartography, spatial analysis, and demonstrable QGIS or equivalent skills are a bonus.
• Confidence on camera and an interest in presenting short-form video are desirable but not essential.
• Passion for news, organization, reliability, ability to work under pressure, curiosity, adaptability, and creativity.

Skills

• Data hunting
• Data verification
• Data analysis
• Excel
• Python
• Data visualization
• UX principles
• Cartography
• Spatial analysis
• QGIS

Location

• London

Work Type

• Full Time
• Permanent
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Mid-level

About the Company

• The Daily Mail's Deep Dive team is a global digital-first department that covers data, graphics, interactive development and visual storytelling.
• The team is fun, independent and collaborative, with a startup spirit and a go-getter attitude.

Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture.
• We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.
• We are Disability Confident Committed.
• Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process.
• Any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.