Java Script Developer, Data Vistualization for News

JAVASCRIPT DEVELOPER, DATA VISUALIZATION FOR NEWS – WNYC

New York Public Radio seeks a front-end developer with proven JavaScript skills, an interest in design and UI and a passion for news, data, public media, new technology and crowd-sourced journalism.

Do you want to ...

Inform the citizens of New York?

Help people understand their world?

Root out corruption?

Make a mark on society?

Make awesome online applications and visualizations ... fast?

WNYC is building a Data News Team to make high-impact visualizations and interactives, and to help WNYC reporters and producers present the facts, expose corruption and explain our world. We've been pioneers in the field of crowdsourcing, data journalism and mapping -- even winning some pretty prestigious awards for our work.

Now we're kicking it up a notch. Like to join us?

What we have:

- An award-wining staff of reporters and producers

- A committed, innovative digital staff

- A mission to conduct journalism in the public interest

- Millions of passionate and active listeners and readers engaged weekly

What you have:

- A passion for news

- An attention to detail, a respect for fairness and a hatred of inaccuracy

- Ninja-like Javascript skills with experience in mapping, web interactives and visualizations

- A genuine and friendly disposition, and an honest spirit of collaboration

- A bias toward sharing what you know, and helping others build on it

What you'll do:

- Huddle with reporters to figure out how we might help their stories with data, design and web technology

- Work as a team to turn ideas into realities in days or weeks, tops

- Learn from and build on successes and mistakes along the way

- Have your work consumed online and talked about on air to millions of New Yorkers

If this describes your interests, skills and experience, we want to hear from you!

Click on the link to see a more detailed position specification and to Apply: www.wnyc.org/careers

Please submit cover letter with salary requirements and resume. We must receive all information requested in order to consider your candidacy.

We do not accept or pay a fee for unsolicited resumes from third-parties

New York Public Radio is an Equal Opportunity Employer and invites and encourages qualified applicants from all walks of life.

COMPANY PROFILE – ABOUT NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO

"To make the mind more curious, the heart more open and the spirit more joyful." - New York Public Radio Mission Statement

New York Public Radio is home to three of the country's leading public radio stations—WNYC 93.9 FM, WNYC AM 820, and WQXR 105.9 FM—as well as the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. As America's most listened-to public radio stations* and New York's premier multi-platform public radio franchise, it collectively reaches a monthly audience of more than11.5 million.

WNYC and wnyc.org: WNYC is a major producer of original, award-winning local and national content. It originates for public radio nationwide programs and podcasts like Radiolab, The Takeaway, Freakonomics, On The Media and Studio 360. WNYC maintains a centralized newsroom and its award-winning reporters contribute regularly to online and local news broadcasts and to the nationally-distributed news programs Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Marketplace and The Takeaway. Also, WNYC produces the signature daily programs The Brian Lehrer Show, The Leonard Lopate Show, Soundcheck and New Sounds. Five WNYC programs — Radio Lab, On the Media, Studio 360, The Brian Lehrer Show, and Radio Rookies, its youth journalism program serving teens in all five boroughs, have been recognized with George Foster Peabody Awards, the highest honor in broadcasting journalism. WNYC's original content is available to people wherever they are via mobile platforms, online audio streams, podcasts and social media. In addition, WNYC presents the best national offerings from networks National Public Radio, Public Radio International, American Public Media, and the British Broadcasting Company, broadcasting a wide range of daily news, talk, cultural and music programming.

WQXR and wqxr.org: Classical 105.9 WQXR is New York City's sole classical music station, presenting new and landmark classical recordings as well as live concerts from the Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Opera and the New York Philharmonic, among other New York City venues, immersing listeners in the city's rich musical life. WQXR.org also hosts Q2, an HD broadcast and web stream dedicated to discovery, giving listeners an opportunity to experience exceptional music, classic and contemporary, that they likely have not heard before. WQXR's smart, engaging hosts provide distinctive context for the music they love to play. And wqxr.org serves the global classical music community through online listening, playlists, host blogs and New York City cultural news. WQXR also offers Metropolitan Opera Radio Saturday Matinee Broadcasts, The Philharmonic This Week, McGraw Hill Young Artists Showcase evenings, and Symphony Hall.

The Jerome L. Greene Performance Space and thegreenespace.org: Our street-front broadcast studio and performance venue produces a full season of original programming – as well as WNYC and WQXR shows, concerts and events – for live, radio and online audiences. It is becoming an anchor in our growing, exciting Hudson Square neighborhood in lower Manhattan.

(*Source: Arbitron)