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The Urban Journalism Network is an award winning cross-border team of journalists, urbanists, developers, data journalists and designers. We work across 10 to 15 European media outlets, collaborating on international projects on issues shared among European cities. It was awarded the European Press Prize in 2022 for the investigation “Cities for Rent”, a project investigating corporate landlords in European capitals.

Since then, we have published several further data-driven investigations dealing with issues like housing crisis and land speculation, but also topics like drug consumption or demographic change. Our articles combine local and international investigative reporting with experimental methods of data gathering and interactive data visualization.

Are you interested in joining our growing team? Below you may find current openings.

  • Data Journalist
  • Investigative Reporter
  • Frontend Developer
  • Interface Designer / Information Designer

Frontend Developer for Dataviz and Interactives

The Urban Journalism Network is seeking freelance frontend developers to join one or more of its international investigative projects on housing in 2025.

Job overview

As a developer, you will work closely with the tech lead, the coordinator of dataviz production, interface and information designers – and sometimes with the various local individual investigative reporters. Next to pure frontend work, you’ll get to help thinking about appropriate ways of visualizing findings, help with data analysis and think about tools for crowd participation.

Responsibilities

  • Data Collection: You will scope the data availability on European, national and local level and approach institutions to request data.
  • Prepare datasets for visualizations: Compile and normalize the datasets collected by regional journalists,  and prepare the handover to graphic designers and developers.
  • Data Analysis: You will search for leads and stories in the datasets in close exchange with investigative and local journalists.
  • Support regional journalists: You will also provide help to local or international (data) journalists in order to explain certain datadriven tools or methods and make sure that the data will be comparable and aligned with the overall aims of the project

Qualifications

  • Experience in Frontend development using a modern framework like React, Vue or Svelte (we’re using Svelte)
  • Experience with data visualisation, ideally having implemented data viz from scratch 
  • Experience with coding map applications using libraries like mapbox or maplibre
  • Experience in working closely with designers and content driven people
  • Fluent in English, additional languages are an advantage
  • Experience with working in diverse teams

Advantages

  • Data management experience with adequate tools
  • Orientation in the topics of housing/environment/urban issues
  • Experience with backend development (building APIs, using databases)
  • Experience with data analysis (R or Python)
  • Experience with basic Dev Ops (deploying web applications to cloud resources, server setup and maintenance)
  • Geospatial analysis (QGIS, Python)
  • UX and UI design knowledge

What we offer

  • Part-time freelance job for six months initially, with option of extension
  • Fair payment
  • Home-office from anywhere in Europe, flexible working hours 
  • Meetings in person with the network members in various cities
  • Networking with other European data and investigative journalists
  • A friendly, young and innovative environment of data and investigative journalists across Europe
  • Chance to take part in the development of new technical methods and tools for data and investigative journalism

If you are interested, please send us a short tabular CV focused on previous projects, your GitHub handle and/or links to projects you built before AND either a very short motivational letter (1/2 page) or a short video (1-3 min.) explaining why you want to work with us.

Please include your ideal workload in hours per week and your daily salary expectations. Deadline for application is December 10th 2024. Job start date: As soon as possible, no later than 20 January 2025.


Send an email to [email protected] mentioning the subject „Developer job“


Data Journalist

The Urban Journalism Network is seeking a freelance Data Journalist to join one or more of its international investigative projects on housing in 2025.


Job overview

As a data journalist you will work closely with the coordinator of the individual investigative project, developers and the coordinator of dataviz production. You will be mainly responsible for data research, data collection across European partners and data analysis. And you can help think about appropriate way of visualizing the findings.

Responsibilities
  • Data Collection: You will scope the data availability on European, national and local level and approach institutions to request data.
  • Prepare datasets for visualizations: Compile and normalize the datasets collected by regional journalists,  and prepare the handover to graphic designers and developers.
  • Data Analysis: You will search for leads and stories in the datasets in close exchange with investigative and local journalists.
  • Support regional journalists: You will also provide help to local or international (data) journalists in order to explain certain datadriven tools or methods and make sure that the data will be comparable and aligned with the overall aims of the project
Qualifications
  • Journalistic experience
  • Fluent in English, additional languages are an advantage
  • Experience with working in diverse teams
  • Data management experience with adequate tools
  • Some experience in collecting and building own datasets
  • Data analysis skills in R, or preferably Python
  • Good management and communication skills
  • Geo analysis skills with tools like QGis
Advantages
  • Previous participation on international collaborative projects
  • Orientation in the topics of housing/environment/urban issues
  • Experience with further geospatial data analysis
  • Experience in dataviz or coding frontend development
What we offer
  • Part-time freelance job for six months initially, with option of extension
  • Fair payment
  • Home-office, flexible working hours 
  • Meetings in person with the network members in various cities
  • Networking with other European journalists at conferences/workshops
  • A friendly, young and innovative environment of data and investigative journalists across Europe
  • Chance to take part in the development of new technical methods and tools for data and investigative journalism

If you are interested, please send us a short tabular CV focused on previous publications/projects AND either a short cover letter (1/2 page) or a short video (1-3 min.) of yourself in which you explain why you want to work with us. Please include your ideal workload in hours per week and your daily salary expectations. Deadline for application is 17 November 2024. Job start date between 1st December and 20 January 2025.


Send an email to [email protected] mentioning the subject “Data journalist job“


Investigative Reporter

The Urban Journalism Network is seeking a freelance Investigative Reporter to join one or more of its international investigative projects on housing in 2025.


Job overview

As an investigative reporter you will work closely with the coordinator of the respective investigative project and involved local investigative journalists. You will be mainly responsible for conducting the research and investigation on a European policy level.

Responsibilities
  • Conducting in-depth research into the topic and preparing briefings
  • Forming own investigative hypotheses and searching for leads 
  • Conducting interviews, sending FOI requests, searching for data, follow-the-money analysis
  • Writing summaries and articles in English
  • Cooperating with local investigative journalists and synchronizing findings across countries
Qualifications
  • At least 3 years of journalistic experience
  • Fluent in English, other languages advantage
  • Good knowledge in at least one of the following topics: housing, environmental policies, architecture, urban planning
  • Experience with researching EU policies and funds
  • Excellent writing skills
  • Ability to work both individually and in a diverse team
Advantages
  • Previous participation on international collaborative projects
  • Deep EU policy or institutional knowledge
  • Data journalism skills
  • Previous work as an editor
What we offer
  • Part-time freelance job for six months initially with option of extension
  • Fair payment
  • Home-office, flexible working hours 
  • Meetings in person with the network members in various cities
  • Networking with other European journalists at conferences/workshops
  • A friendly, young and innovative environment of data and investigative journalists across Europe

If you are interested, please send us a short tabular CV focused on previous publications/projects AND either a short cover letter (1/2 page) or a short video (1-3 min.) of yourself in which you explain why you want to work with us. Please include your ideal workload in hours per week and your daily salary expectations. Deadline for application is 17 November 2024. Job start date between 1st December and 20 January 2025.


Any further questions or interested? Send an email to [email protected] including the mail subject “Investigative Reporter Job”

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