Senior Journalist, Visual Journalism

An experienced senior digital journalist is needed to join the Visual Journalism team to work on graphics, maps, charts and other visual assets for stories across BBC News.

As senior journalist, You’ll need to have a flair for writing concise and engaging copy, be at home with spreadsheets and be able to spot great ways of covering stories. You’ll need to have a strong visual sense and attention to detail, be familiar with the fundamentals of visual storytelling and keen to make the most of new digital formats. You might also have statistics and coding skills, video editing experience or ideas for social media storytelling.

Responsibilities

• To pitch and create compelling visual journalism stories, interactives and graphical assets (including infographics, charts and maps) that improve our audience’s understanding of the news.
• To work closely with other journalists, designers and developers on daily reactive and breaking output, plus longer-term multi-disciplinary visual journalism projects.
• Work when required as team duty editor, representing the Visual Journalism team at key daily editorial meetings and partnering with design teams to create visual content for the news website.
• Support other team members on daily tasks as needed.
• To use audience insights tools to measure traffic, engagement and use of Visual Journalism content, liaising with the relevant partners in the Audiences and Growth teams.
• To suggest ideas for enhancing breaking news, daily, medium and long term stories.
• To be aware of relevant advances in web technology and how they can enhance the team’s output.
• Explore, try, help implement new workflows and tools to facilitate the production of visual information.

Required qualifications

• Excellent visual information awareness and good data processing skills for the production of visual journalism content.
• Experience in telling stories visually for core and underserved audiences, and experimenting with new approaches to journalism.
• Proven editorial judgement and flair, ability to generate original journalism, to think creatively and imaginatively about news coverage.
• A demonstrable interest in web technologies and industry trends in visual journalism
• Proven experience in instructing and supporting journalists on the use of digital content production systems, tools and related processes.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• A good general knowledge of international news and current affairs, with substantial experience of online or broadcast news journalism.
• Experience of taking editorial decisions quickly and independently, ability to work unsupervised and to tight deadlines.
• Experience with graphics design software like Photoshop is desirable, as is knowledge of data visualisation and mapping tools such as Flourish, Canva, QGIS, Mapbox and code scripting languages like R and Python.
• Experience of visual storytelling tools like Shorthand.

How to apply

The deadline for applications is November 24, 2024. To learn more and apply, please click here.