Career pathways / Data Journalist
How to become a Data Journalist
Data journalists find and tell the stories hiding in datasets — investigations, visual explainers, accountability reporting. Newsrooms hire the rare combination of statistical literacy, code and news judgement.
Who hires this role
Employer types: newsroom · fact-checking org · NGO
Representative employers: FT Visual · Reuters Graphics · OCCRP
Knowledge structure
Derived from the fields that feed this career — what the role actually draws on.
Quantitative analysisexpected
Policy & institutionshelpful
Technical / digitalcore requirement
Languages & communicationcore requirement
What to study
Scholarships that fund this path
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