Hey guys, We're looking to hire someone to join our team at Hindustan Times. If you love making cool stuff on the Internet about current events, you should apply. Full job description below:
- Harry ~~~~ The Hindustan Times seeks a data journalist to join its award-winning News Apps team at HT's global headquarters in New Delhi, India, at the earliest possible date. Applicants should be highly motivated and passionate about telling stories in compelling ways, particularly on digital platforms. *Desired skills/experience:* - Journalism: Experience working as a professional reporter, publishing stories regularly, and juggling daily reporting with long-term feature and enterprise work. - Data gathering: Web scraping, public records requests, Tabula, etc. - Data analysis: Excel, OpenRefine, R, knowledge of statistics, etc. - Data visualization: Creating charts and maps, preferably interactive ones with Javascript and related libraries like D3.js and TopoJSON, but also static ones with tools like Adobe Illustrator, ai2html and QGIS. - Web development and design: HTML, CSS, Javascript and related libraries like jQuery. It is not necessary that you can tick all five of these boxes, but you should be proficient in at least two of these fields and have a strong desire to learn the rest. We improve with every project, and we're always helping each other get better. It's a lot of fun. We are accepting applications on a rolling basis. Interested applicants should send a cover letter, resume/CV and links to two of your stories or projects — not necessarily published — to [email protected]. -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
