Visual Data Journalist

Year    KA, IN, India

Job Description

About the role




You'll plan, design, and create interactive illustrations and data-driven artifacts that make complex information click for users. This means designing programmatic visualisations, building scrapers that pull useful signals from noise across the web, and analysing datasets to find angles nobody else has spotted. Your work will support both editorial projects and experimental initiatives, so you'll move fluidly between journalistic investigation and strategic undertakings.


About you




You have top-notch technical acumen:


Strong programming skills--Python, JavaScript, or similar


Experience with data visualisation libraries and frameworks


Proficiency in web scraping and API integration


Solid grasp of data analysis and manipulation


Comfortable working with databases and managing large datasets



You also have sharp editorial instincts:


Keen narrative intuition


The sense to identify compelling stories rooted in data


Clear communication skills to connect with technical and general audiences


Understanding of journalistic ethics and data privacy


Experience working in newsroom environments or similar cross-disciplinary, collaborative settings


What you're expected to do




Design and build interactive data visualisations and web-based artifacts


Develop data pipelines to collect information at scale


Analyse datasets to identify undiscovered patterns and insights


Collaborate with reporters and editors to enhance storytelling


Support business team initiatives with data-driven insights


Maintain and optimise data infrastructure for ongoing projects


People who may be a good fit




You love the journeys of locating the perfect dataset, debugging a misbehaving scraper, and figuring out how to visualise a project that nobody has tackled before. You believe in making information simultaneously accessible and aesthetically engaging. The bigger and more unique the project, the more exciting it is for you.



This role is for someone who wants their work to matter by crafting great stories that haven't been told before, and who chooses to work at the intersection of code, data, and narrative building.




About The Ken




The Ken is India's first and largest subscriptions-based media company. Established in October 2016, we publish deeply reported, analytical, and well-narrated stories every day--across formats including longform features, newsletters, and podcasts. Our subscriber community, the majority of whom are in India, comprise innovative and successful entrepreneurs and senior executives; venture capitalists; policy makers; MBA students; and hundreds of companies.


What you'll get




One of our tenets is to offer the most competitive salaries and meaningful benefits we can to our colleagues. Besides that, you'll get:


The latest Apple MacBook


A flat, non-hierarchical, and open culture


Universal ESOP benefits


Health insurance


Unique learning opportunities related to journalism and subscription products



Have questions?



Mail us at careers@the-ken.com with the name of the position in the subject line.

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD4748792
  • Industry
    Not mentioned
  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    KA, IN, India
  • Education
    Not mentioned
  • Experience
    Year