Graphics Multimedia Editor, Back-End, Weather Data Team Job at The New York Time

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.

Job Description

The New York Times is looking for a data journalist and developer to work with weather data, especially in the gathering and maintaining of real-time and historic data, for The Times’s coverage of daily weather and extreme weather events.

You will be a critical part of The Times’s work to produce analytical journalism and create new visual approaches to weather coverage, working with editors, designers and other developers to build data pipelines, work with geospatial data and conceive of and build new features. In your role, you will collaborate with reporters, editors, developers and designers.

Your work will include researching weather data sources, writing scripts to gather, store and transform weather and climate data from a range of sources in a variety of formats, such as JSON, XML or text files, and working with designers, editors and developers to display that data to our readers. You'd also contribute to other areas of our weather coverage based on your skills and interest, such as building frontend features, improving our weather trackers or building new maps.

As part of your cover letter, please submit links to examples of projects in which you have demonstrated these skills.

Location: San Francisco or New York City.

Basic Qualifications:

• At least three years of relevant experience
• Interest in weather and climate data
• Experience with journalistic reporting or data analysis
• Knowledge of Node, Python or other backend languages
• Experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Adept in building database, server and storage systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Clear, holistic approaches to data collection, processing and storage
• Experience writing and troubleshooting data scrapers and bots to keep them working on deadline
• Experience with geospatial data in multiple formats
• Proficiency with database, server and storage systems on Google Cloud Services
• Must be willing to work occasional nights and weekends

The annual base pay range for this role is between $109,521.19 and $136,000.00.

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