Data Reporter / Senior Data Reporter

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The Role / Position Overview

FT Specialist is seeking a Data Reporter / Senior Data Reporter to join our growing data journalism team. You will produce exclusive, data-driven reporting and visual storytelling for FundFire and Financial Advisor IQ. This role blends journalism, data analysis, and visual design. You will source, clean, analyze, and interpret complex datasets to uncover original stories on institutional investments, wealth management, and the financial advisory industry. You will also create engaging visualizations and interactive content to enhance our journalism and deliver unique insights.

Working within a six-person data visualization team, you will collaborate closely with reporters and editors across both publications, reporting to the Managing Editor of Data Visualization. The successful candidate will be equally comfortable developing ambitious long-term investigative projects and delivering shorter-turnaround stories responding to emerging trends and news events. We are looking for a curious, collaborative, and entrepreneurial journalist passionate about using data to reveal meaningful stories and committed to continuous skill development in a fast-evolving newsroom.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop original, data-driven stories covering institutional investing, wealth management, and financial advisory businesses.
• Source, collect, clean, and analyze structured and unstructured datasets using a range of journalistic and analytical techniques.
• Build compelling charts, graphics, and interactive visualizations that enhance storytelling and audience engagement.
• Identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities within datasets that lead to exclusive reporting.
• Execute both long-term analytical projects and shorter-term assignments driven by current events.
• Collaborate with reporters, editors, and visual journalists across FundFire and Financial Advisor IQ.
• Support colleagues in applying data journalism procedures and accurately interpreting quantitative information.
• Utilize public records, databases, APIs, web scraping techniques, and proprietary datasets to uncover new reporting opportunities.
• Ensure all reporting and analysis meets the highest standards of accuracy, transparency, and journalistic integrity.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of data journalism capabilities across FT Specialist.

Required Skills / Experience

• Demonstrated experience producing data-driven journalism, business reporting, or analytical storytelling in a newsroom or comparable environment.
• Strong interest in data journalism, visual storytelling, and financial or business news.
• Proven track record of identifying, analyzing, and communicating compelling stories through data.
• Experience using Python or R for data acquisition, cleaning, analysis, and reporting.
• Strong proficiency with Excel and other data analysis tools.
• Experience working with APIs, databases, and web scraping techniques.
• Knowledge of data visualization standard processes and experience using tools such as Flourish, Adobe Illustrator, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, D3, or comparable front-end technologies.
• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• Ability to translate complex quantitative findings into clear and engaging journalism for non-technical audiences.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and project management skills.
• Experience working successfully within cross-functional teams and time-sensitive environments.

What’s in it for You? Our Benefits

Our benefits vary by location but include generous annual leave, medical cover, inclusive parental leave packages, subsidized gym memberships, and opportunities to give back to the community. Full details are available here: https://aboutus.ft.com/careers/benefits.

We embrace a 50% hybrid working model (averaging two to three days onsite) that fosters trust and remote adaptability while encouraging in-person camaraderie and peer learning. We are also open to accommodating specific flexible working pattern requests where feasible.

Accessibility

We are committed to creating an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations during the application process or interview stage. Contact talent@ft.com for assistance.

Further Information

• Salary Range: $75,000-$95,000. The upper end reflects a senior reporter level. Earlier career candidates may be considered for reporter-level roles. Salary offers are based on skills, experience, training, certifications, and business needs.
• This salary range is for our NYC office and has not been adjusted for other locations.
• This role is part of the FT Specialist US Guild and covered under a collective bargaining agreement with the Writers’ Guild of America East.
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