Digital Graphics Journalist

About the role

SPH Media is looking for a Digital Graphics Journalist to create visual stories for its newsroom. The role blends journalism, data analysis and interactive design to produce engaging, data‑driven content for a regional audience.

Key responsibilities

• Write, design and collaborate with developers to build visual stories, including data visualisations and diverse visual formats.
• Conduct investigative journalism and research using data, locating and verifying data sources.
• Utilise statistics and data‑science tools for data parsing, scraping, and wrangling.
• Access APIs or external data sources as needed.
• Manage workflow and processes for data‑driven and visual stories within the newsroom.
• Analyse story performance with analytics and recommend workflow or concept improvements.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, graphic design, data science, statistics or computer science.
• Experience in journalism or reporting (including internships) is an advantage.
• Proficiency in at least two of the following areas: journalism/reporting, data visualisation/infographics, front‑end web development, data‑analysis programming.
• Team‑player attitude, strong attention to detail, analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Willingness to work flexible hours, including nights or weekends.

Required skills

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• React, VueJS or Svelte (frontend framework)
• d3.js library
• Mapbox
• AWS serverless computing
• SQL
• R, Python or Perl scripting
• Data parsing, scraping and API integration