Data and Graphics Editor, CNN Visuals (12 month FTC)

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Data and Graphics Editor, CNN Visuals – 12 Month FTC

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery – The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of

At Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), we don't just bring to life the world of wizards, dragons, and superheroes or even the wonders of Planet Earth. We are the storytellers and dreamers behind the iconic content and beloved brands, offering career-defining opportunities worldwide. From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers, our employees thrive in an environment where they're supported and celebrated.

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Your New Role

CNN Digital’s data and graphics team seeks an interdisciplinary journalist passionate about essential, creative, and groundbreaking journalism, focusing on data graphics and interactives. As a key member of our global data and graphics team, you will collaborate with news desks to contextualize news stories about the most critical issues of our time. You'll help find, report on, analyze, and visualize data across various topics, including breaking news, policy, business, climate, health, inequity, and more.

This 12-month fixed-term position requires someone skilled in reporting, data visualization, and creative storytelling through dataviz, mapping, interactive features, webGL, or similar tools. You'll pitch and develop your stories while collaborating on impactful visual and data-driven journalism.

Your Role Accountabilities

  • Pitch, report, and edit visual and data-driven stories
  • Create graphics and visuals emphasizing data analysis and development
  • Produce and edit charts or other visual storytelling formats for breaking news and long-term features
  • Identify strong data and graphics opportunities proactively for data stories and other news desks
  • Review data, stories, visualizations, and graphics to ensure rigorous standards are upheld
  • Collaborate with data and graphics teammates, document your work, open-source data when relevant, and participate in skill sharing

Qualifications & Experience

  • A desire to push storytelling forward with creative graphic and data use to serve journalism
  • Impeccable news judgment and always asking, “what’s the best way to tell this story?”
  • Excellent communication skills for story pitching and collaborative project shaping
  • A reader-first perspective with a strong commitment to multiplatform storytelling
  • Comfort working individually, collaboratively, and with cross-functional teams
  • Experience with the command line and Git
  • Skilled in analyzing and visualizing data
  • Familiarity with modern mapping tools (Arc, QGIS, MapBox, etc.)
  • Experience with data and visualization tools like Illustrator, ai2html, HTML, CSS, JavaScript libraries (especially D3), R, Python, SQL, Excel, etc.
  • Proven newsroom or data/visualization experience

Hybrid Working

This role follows a hybrid work model combining remote and in-office work per current company policy, subject to change based on business needs and reasonable notice.

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