The Marshall Project – Job listing
Interactive Journalist
This position is no longer open for applications
Job title: Interactive Journalist
Location: New York, NY
Reporting to: Managing Editor, Digital
Responsibilites:
• Collaborate with other members of the interactive team and newsroom to brainstorm creative and innovative approaches to news interactives.
• Conceptualize, wire-frame, design and build first-class interactive applications and graphics.
• Conduct original reporting.
• Develop, implement and support applications and interactives that break new ground in journalism.
• Present top-quality graphics that render across multiple browsers and platforms.
• Conceptualize and create tools that are used by other members of the newsroom to present data and news.
• Quickly and creatively solve problems and perform on deadline.
Experience and Skills:
• Expertise in HTML, CSS, Javascript is essential
• Familiarity with infographic and chart best practices
• Proficiency with maps is highly desired
• Familiarity with Ruby or Python
• Expert understanding of cross-browser and front-end development issues.
• Familiarity with deploying applications online.
• Deep understanding of the web
• Comfortable with web APIs and able to integrate data, audio, and video into interactive experiences.
• Experience with statistics and data analysis strongly desired.
• Familiarity with the Adobe Creative Suite, particularly Photoshop and Illustrator.
The Marshall Project is a not-for-profit, non-partisan news organization dedicated to covering America’s criminal justice system. The Marshall Project will combine the best of the old and the new in journalism. We will achieve our goals through the use of conventional investigative reporting and opinion writing, and embrace new technologies currently transforming the media, including interactive graphics, immersive digital stories, short video documentaries and content generated by our readers. We will curate the daily torrent of criminal justice news from publications around the country, highlight the work of advocacy groups on both the right and left, host debates, and drive a lively discussion on social media.
To Apply: Email Us
(marshallprojectinfo+interactivejournalist@gmail.com)