Business Insider editorial fellow, data (SUMMER/FALL) (Creative Design)
The Insider Fellowship Program is for early career journalists who want to spend six months learning from a newsroom full of passionate, dedicated journalists. Fellows are assigned to teams and become experts in digital storytelling. For more information on the Insider Fellowship Program, see here.
- A journalism background and experience at a digital publication
- A passion for digital storytelling and voracious reading habits
- Familiarity with digital and social media
- Ability to work quickly and collaboratively with a fast-paced team
- Proofreading and copyediting skills
- Has a strong mathematical, statistical, or other quantitative background and feels comfortable analyzing and writing about data
- Has extensive experience using Microsoft Excel and/or statistical software
- Is familiar with the theory and practice of data visualization
- Has a sense for how to use data to complement other journalists' efforts in the newsroom: How can we improve a story with data?
- Has strong and proven headline-writing skills
- Has a deep interest in the role of work and economics in American life
- Is capable of peeling stories out of technical reports and making them lucid to a lay audience
- Is comfortable working on both long-form and quick-hit pieces
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