Fellow, Election Analytics
Core
Data-driven coverage of American elections, producing polls, live election-night forecasts, and voter analysis stories.
Role type
Fellow, Election Analytics (interdisciplinary reporter/statistician/developer)
Builds
The New York Times/Siena University Poll, The Needle (live forecast), polling tracker, and election analysis stories
Domain
US Politics / Election Analytics / Data Journalism
Required skills
statistical analysis, data scraping, R, Python, web application development, cloud computing, American elections knowledge
Preferred skills
news story writing, college newspaper experience
Technologies
R, Python, cloud computing providers
Responsibilities
Contribute original analyses of polls and voter registration trends for articles or graphics; Increase team understanding through data collection, scraping, and statistical analysis; Collaborate with colleagues across the newsroom
Seniority
Fellow (entry-level to early career, max 5 years experience)