Visual Journalist

at  The Australian Financial Review

Company Description
Nine is Australia’s largest locally owned media company – the home of Australia’s most trusted and loved brands spanning News, Sport, Lifestyle, and Entertainment. We pride ourselves on creating the best content, accessed by consumers when and how they want – across Publishing, Broadcasting and Digital.
Nine’s assets include the 9Network, major mastheads such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian Financial Review, radio stations 2GB, 3AW, 4BC and 6PR, digital properties such as nine.com.au, 9Now, 9Honey, Pedestrian.TV, Drive, subscription video platform Stan and a majority investment in Domain Group.
Our Purpose: We shape culture by sparking conversations, challenging perspectives, and entertaining our communities.
We bring people together by celebrating the big occasions and connecting the everyday moments. Australia belongs here. We bring our purpose to life via three shared values: We walk the talk, turn over every stone and keep it human.
Job Description
The Australian Financial Review is looking for a visual journalist to create rich digital stories using data visualisations, geospatial tools and other interactive elements that will engage and inform our readers.

Day to day you will:

• Build bold and beautiful presentations, charts, maps and infographics that will bring complex stories to life.
• Work closely with designers, reporters, editors, and producers to deliver insights and context to Financial Review subscribers. And you will also generate and develop your own ideas. There is potential for this to be a team-leading role depending on experience.
• Use your technical acumen to devise presentations, you will also exercise design and journalistic judgment to ensure the clarity, accuracy and functionality of your work.

We would love to see your work. Please submit material with your application online (include examples, links to websites or attach audio/video files up to 5MB).
Qualifications

What we would like to see:

• Demonstrated experience in HTML, CSS, JavaScript (ES6) and modern web technologies.
• Experience or interest in working in a multidisciplinary team.
• Ability to meet deadlines, and to adapt and find pragmatic solutions when faced with time or technical constraints
• Technical creativity, curiosity and versatility
• Experience in a newsroom is ideal but not essential
• Data visualisation, including libraries like D3.js.
• Data journalism and related practices and tools, including web scrapers, spreadsheets and statistical methods.
• Experience in server-side languages like PHP and Python
• Mapping and GIS tools.

Additional Information

Please refer the Job description for details