Data Viz Today

74: What It's Like Being a Data Journalist — Featuring Danielle Alberti

Jun 30, 2022

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A Big Green Flag for Data Journalists

02:17

Do You Like to See a Lot of Different Examples in a Portfolio?

03:03

Data Wrapper

03:15

Introduction

2min

Data Day at Axios

4min

What's the Career Path for a Data Journalist?

2min

How to Become a Data Journalist?

2min

Do You Miss the Actual Work?

2min

Are We Taking Things More Slowly?

2min

Do You Have a Beat Work in Your Newsroom?

1min

How Many Peop Might Work on One Piece?

2min

The Most Important Skills When Hiring a Data Visualization Professional

3min

10.

Are You Looking for Any Kinds of Coating Skills?

3min

11.

Do You Have a Data Wrapper?

3min

12.

Do You Like to See a Lot of Different Examples in a Portfolio?

3min

13.

A Big Green Flag for Data Journalists

2min

14.

A Balanced Team

2min

15.

Data Wrapper

3min

16.

Data Vis and Illustrations - What's the Difference?

4min

17.

Design and Illustrators Are Just Amazing. They're Just Amazing

2min

18.

The Art Charts and the Illustrations on Is Laer

3min

19.

Are You Taking a Statistics Class?

2min

Today, we have Danielle Alberti on the show to share a behind-the-scenes look at how to become and be a data journalist! She's the editor of the data visualization team at Axios and shares:

What's a typical day as a data journalist
Which skills are important
What she looks for in a resume and portfolio when hiring for a data journalist position
What she would do differently if she were starting her data journalist career over again

This interview with Danielle was the special opening segment to the Elevate Learning Community conference — you can watch the whole conference with thoughtful talks about information design here: https://elevatedataviz.com/live

Full shownotes: https://dataviztoday.com/shownotes/74