Data Journalist, Public Safety
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Chicago Public Media
Job Description
About Chicago Public Media
Chicago Public Media is one of the nation’s largest local nonprofit news organizations. Home to WBEZ 91.5FM, the Chicago Sun-Times, and Vocalo. Chicago Public Media reaches more than 3.3 million people weekly across broadcast, print, and digital platforms. As a mission-driven organization, we aspire to be the most trusted news source Chicagoans turn to for understanding the people, events, and ideas shaping our community.
Chicago Public Media is a 100% community-funded newsroom powered by nearly 97,000 members whose support makes our journalism possible. This sustained community investment helped drive nationally recognized work in 2025, including 29 awards from esteemed organizations, including the Public Media Journalists Association, the Edward R. Murrow Awards, and the National Association of Black Journalists.
We believe independent journalism is essential to a healthy democracy and that access to objective, fact-based news is a right for every citizen. We serve the public interest by creating diverse content that informs and enriches our community, supported by a dedicated staff of approximately 250 professionals.
For more information, please see the Chicago Public Media Annual Report.
The Opportunity
The Data Journalist is responsible for building and maintaining editorial tools for data journalism and data informed storytelling. The Data Journalist will specifically help the combined Sun-Times/WBEZ newsroom produce deeply reported and impactful public safety coverage. The Data Journalist will also work collaboratively within the larger newsroom to identify opportunities that would be strengthened with data journalism practices or graphics.
General Responsibilities
- Builds and supports editorial tools and systems for data journalism and innovative storytelling.
- Deploys scrapers, ETL processes and monitoring services to build data repositories for reporting and production.
- Collaborates with reporting teams to identify important data sets, brainstorm coverage ideas and find gaps in project plans.
- Explores and analyzes data for relevance and story potential and creates tools and dashboards to make data and analyses more accessible to the newsroom.
- Helps configure pipelines and templates for presenting data in a meaningful way to internal and external users.
- May pitch, report and write data-driven stories, including visualizations, for wbez.org and other digital platforms.
- Plans and identifies strong data and graphics opportunities across the newsroom.
- Reviews data, analyses, stories, visualizations and graphics to ensure they uphold standards.
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