Data Journalist, AI & Automation

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

📰 Journalist

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ConsumerAffairs

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2007

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🏪 Marketplace

Consulting • Marketing • Marketplace

ConsumerAffairs is a comprehensive digital platform providing consumers with valuable information on a wide range of products and services. The company offers detailed reviews and guides, helping individuals make informed purchasing decisions across various sectors, such as home, automotive, finance, and senior care. With over 3 million reviews and insights from experts, ConsumerAffairs serves as a trusted resource for buyers seeking to compare products and services. The platform also facilitates connections between consumers and companies, driving transactions and informed decision-making.

📋 Description

• Develop original, data-driven story ideas that are timely, relevant, and useful to consumers • Research credible data sources and evaluate whether story ideas can be supported by reliable data • Develop clear, defensible methodologies for analyzing data and measuring covered topics • Interpret datasets to identify trends, comparisons, outliers, and other findings • Assess what data does and does not support, including limitations • Bring findings to life through charts, maps, tables, rankings, and other data visualizations • Turn research and data findings into editorial direction, story angles, outlines, key findings, and guidance for freelance writers • Coordinate with data analysts and freelance writers throughout production • Review and quality-assure analysts’ work, including source data, calculations, formulas, methodologies, and final results • Review writer drafts for story structure, research direction, and key findings • Manage multiple projects, stages, deadlines, and stakeholders • Collaborate with editors, designers, Digital PR teammates, and other stakeholders from concept through publication • Identify opportunities to use AI and automation in research, analysis, QA, and production workflows • Build, test, and improve AI-assisted or automated workflows for repetitive production tasks • Experiment with tools to improve efficiency, accuracy, and consistency • Document successful workflows and help integrate them into team production • Critically evaluate AI-generated outputs and independently validate data, calculations, sources, and findings • Monitor consumer trends, news, emerging datasets, and data-storytelling approaches • Frame research findings for consumers and journalists • Contribute ideas to improve research, production, storytelling, and visual presentation • Use performance results and team feedback to improve future data-driven projects

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, data analytics, statistics, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience • 1-3 years of experience in journalism, content, research, data storytelling, data visualization, digital PR, or a related area • Internships, academic projects, freelance work, and relevant coursework are welcome • Strong quantitative and statistical reasoning • Ability to work confidently with percentages, rates, averages, distributions, rankings, changes over time, and other common forms of analysis • Strong writing and communication skills • Ability to explain data and complex ideas clearly and accurately • Interest in researching and evaluating credible data sources, including government and other publicly available datasets • Detail-oriented and committed to accuracy • Ability to question results that seem unusual or inconsistent • Strong organizational skills • Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines • Strong proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets, including formulas, filtering, sorting, lookups, conditional logic, pivot tables, and working with larger datasets • Working knowledge of basic statistical analysis • Understanding of how to choose appropriate ways to analyze and compare data • Ability to inspect, clean, transform, and validate datasets from multiple sources • Comfortable using APIs • Strong interest in building AI-assisted and automated workflows • Ability to use AI tools thoughtfully for research, coding, analysis, ideation, and production while independently validating outputs and maintaining editorial standards • Experience with ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Zapier, n8n, or similar platforms is a plus • Interest in data visualization • Experience with Datawrapper, Flourish, Tableau, Infogram, or similar platforms is a plus • Familiarity with AP Style and digital publishing is a plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) • Retirement Plan (401k) • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D) • Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays) • Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity) • Short Term & Long Term Disability • Training & Development • Collaborative work environment • Career development opportunities • Work-life harmony • Professional growth opportunities