Data Journalism Fellow

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🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $70k - $90k / year

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The Lawfare Institute

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2010

📱 Media

🤝 Non-profit

Media • Non-profit

The Lawfare Institute is a non-profit multimedia publication and research organization focused on legal and policy analysis of national security, intelligence, cybersecurity, and related government actions. It publishes articles, podcasts, webinars, litigation trackers, and resources on topics such as armed conflict, surveillance and privacy, courts and litigation, elections, and technology law, providing non-partisan, timely analysis aimed at policymakers, practitioners, academics, and the informed public.

📋 Description

• Explore and document how RAGtime engages its existing datasets—federal litigation, statutes, regulations, Office of Legal Counsel opinions, and foreign-relations records—surfacing patterns, strengths, and gaps; • Experiment with new datasets: help identify, evaluate, and onboard new corpora of public records, and assess how they expand what the platform can do; • Develop use cases by working with senior editors and users to craft and refine the prompts and workflows that turn RAGtime into beneficial tools for research, reporting, and analysis; • Conduct data journalism and research analysis using RAGtime—finding stories, evidence, and insight in the primary-source record and helping translate them into Lawfare's published work; • Serve as a thought partner to the editor-in-chief and to volunteer software developers on the platform’s roadmap and capabilities; • Help keep current and new data pipelines up to date using AI-assisted (“vibe coding”) approaches—formal software-engineering experience is not required; • Gather and synthesize feedback from users to inform improvements and new features; • Contribute to platform documentation, user guidance, and, as needed, reporting on platform use for funders and stakeholders; • Take on other responsibilities as the platform grows.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong research, analytical, and writing skills—ideally with a background in journalism, data journalism, research, law, public policy, information science, or a related field; • Comfort using AI and large language models in daily work, and enthusiasm for “vibe coding”—using AI tools to write lightweight code and scripts—even without a formal technical background; • Curiosity and rigor: an eagerness to explore a new tool, form hypotheses about how it can be used, and test them; • Comfort working with data—finding, evaluating, organizing, and drawing insight from structured and unstructured sources; • An interest in law, government, national security, or the public record (a strong plus).

🏖️ Benefits

• health and dental care (with premiums fully paid by Lawfare) • flexible hours • participation in Lawfare's 401(k) plan with up to 4% employer match