Fellow, Election Analytics

Election Analytics is an interdisciplinary team of reporters, editors, developers and statisticians. You should have experience working in one of these areas and be excited to learn about the others. You will use your knowledge of elections and voting to contribute to stories, graphics and our longer-term projects.

The exact form of this role will depend on your background. Perhaps you are more comfortable writing than coding and want to deepen your technical skills to more easily answer questions yourself. Or perhaps you bring a background as a developer or statistician and want to work on your ability to communicate your ideas in words.

This is an in-office position and includes regular attendance in the office four days each week. There may be some flexibility to work remotely per your departmental guidance. You may be required to work some nights, weekends and holidays as needed.

Responsibilities:

Contribute original analyses of polls, voter registration trends and recent election results for articles or graphics
Increase the team’s understanding of elections through data collection, scraping, statistical analysis and reporting
Participate in training and social programs designed for the fellowship
Collaborate with colleagues across the newsroom
Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world

Basic Qualifications:

No more than five years of full-time, professional journalism experience, excluding internships
A deep and demonstrated understanding of American elections
Experience working with data
Expertise in at least one of the team’s focus areas:
Data-driven reporting, including reporting clips or blog posts that demonstrate analytical findings meant for a broad audience
Statistics, including experience developing statistical models in R or Python
Development, including proficiency in R or Python, experience working with cloud computing providers and experience building productionized web applications

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience writing news stories, such as for a college newspaper