Analyst, Newsroom Data

Dow Jones & Company•New York City, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a Data Analyst to join its newsroom data team, reporting to the Senior Manager, Newsroom Analytics. The analyst will work alongside senior analysts to produce reports, dashboards, and analyses that support editorial, audience, and product decisions. The role is based in the New York office and offers opportunities to develop analytical skills in a fast-moving newsroom environment, taking on progressively more independent work across ad hoc analyses, experiment analysis, and measurement projects. The role focuses primarily on SQL, data extraction, dashboard development and maintenance, and helping newsroom partners get timely answers. The analyst will also use AI tools to build lightweight utilities and automations that improve team efficiency and make more time for deeper analysis.

Requirements

One to two years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, or a related field, or an equivalent internship and project background.
Proficient SQL skills, including experience writing queries against non-trivial datasets.
Comfort with a modern BI or dashboarding tool such as Looker, Tableau, Mode, or a similar tool.
Ability and curiosity to quickly learn technical concepts and frameworks and become productive on unfamiliar technology stacks.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain data clearly to non-technical partners.
Care for accuracy and detail in work that newsroom partners will act on.

Nice To Haves

Experience with large-scale data warehouses such as BigQuery or Snowflake, or with dbt.
Familiarity with Python for analysis, data wrangling, or automation, and comfort maintaining code in Git.
Exposure to A/B testing and applied statistics.
A background or strong interest in journalism, media, or content, and enthusiasm for driving journalistic outcomes.
Comfort using AI or LLM tools to speed up analytical workflows.

Responsibilities

Write SQL queries to answer questions from newsroom editorial, audience, and product partners, translating requests into well-scoped queries and clearly communicated results.
Build and maintain dashboards and recurring reports that expand self-service access to newsroom data.
Support in-depth analyses of major news events, high-priority moments, and performance shifts.
Troubleshoot data quality issues, trace problems to their source, and partner with data engineering to resolve them.
Contribute to A/B tests and experiment analysis with senior analysts, growing toward independent ownership of experiments.
Learn newsroom taxonomies, instrumentation, and foundational datasets.
Help maintain shared documentation and analytical patterns used by the team.
Use AI tools to develop lightweight utilities and automations that improve analytical workflows.