Job Description
Want to do the best work of your life? Make your mark at Europe’s leading entertainment brand. Our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work – a place where you can be yourself and let your skills shine.
Sky News is looking for a Data Journalist to join our pioneering Data & Forensics team. It’s a dynamic and exciting role that puts you at the heart of the biggest stories, bringing extra value and insight to Sky’s award-winning journalism.
You will deliver impactful news stories across a wide range of topics, visualising complex ideas in a clear, accurate, creative, and intelligent manner. You’ll need a good understanding of statistics as well as strong journalistic judgment and editorial values.
What You’ll Do
- Find, clean and analyse data to produce stories for Sky’s digital and broadcast platforms.
- Examine and report on published data to provide context, analysis and news lines on the biggest stories of the day or identify new stories.
- Pitch, develop and deliver original data-driven investigations and come up with ideas as to how they might be presented.
- Work either independently or alongside designers and developers to create compelling visualisations and interactives.
- Negotiate with public officials, businesses and academics for data and open records and gather information via Freedom of Information requests.
- Lead the way in explaining data journalism to our audiences.
What You’ll Bring
- We want passion, drive and a self-starter who can visualise complex ideas in a clear, accurate, creative, and intelligent manner.
- A good understanding of statistics and statistical analysis.
- A good understanding of how to visualise data, perhaps using tools like Flourish, Datawrapper, QGIS or d3.
- Proficiency at writing detailed and accessible articles presenting data analysis.
- Strong journalistic judgment and editorial values.
- Understanding of Excel and Google Sheets is essential.
- A knowledge of programming language for data analysis, such as R, Python or SQL is preferred.
- Knowledge of web development programming languages like HTML/CSS and JavaScript is an advantage.
Team Overview: Sky News
At Sky News, our mission is to bring you the full story, first. We take you there, 24:7, reporting from the heart of the events changing our world. We ask the big questions of everyone, revealing what you want to know. And our style is bold and independent, giving you a fresh perspective.
In the UK, Sky News is a compelling alternative to the public service broadcasters and opinion-driven news outlets, reaching one in three people every month. Across the world, we are one of the most-followed English language news brands on social media, bringing award-winning British journalism to a global audience.
Sky News is part of Sky, one of Europe’s leading media and entertainment companies, owned by Comcast Corporation.
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The Rewards: There's one thing people can't stop talking about when it comes to : the perks. Here’s a taster:
- Access to free NOW, for streaming all your favourite shows
- A generous pension package
- Private healthcare
- Discounts and cashback at over 800 Retailers
Inclusion: At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working.
We are a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We will look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.
Why wait? Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.
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A job you love to talk about. Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer. 
