Analyst, Newsroom Data

The Wall Street Journal is a global news organization providing news, information, commentary, and analysis across multiple platforms. The Data Analyst will support newsroom editorial, audience, and product decisions by producing SQL-based analyses, dashboards, reports, and experiment measurements while improving analytical workflows through automation and AI tools.

What you'll do:

• Write SQL to answer questions from newsroom editorial, audience, and product partners, translating requests into clean, well-scoped queries and clearly communicated results
• Build and maintain dashboards and recurring reports that expand self-serve access to newsroom data
• Support deep-dive analyses on major news events, high-priority moments, and shifts in performance
• Help keep the reporting stack reliable by troubleshooting data quality issues, tracing problems back to their source, and partnering with data engineering to resolve them
• Contribute to A/B tests and experiment analysis in partnership with senior analysts, growing into independent experiment ownership over time
• Learn the newsroom's taxonomies, instrumentation, and foundational datasets, and help maintain shared documentation and analytical patterns the team pulls from

What they're looking for:

• 1 to 2 years in data analytics, business intelligence, or a related field, or an equivalent internship and project background
• Proficient SQL skills, with experience writing queries against non-trivial datasets
• Comfort with a modern BI or dashboarding tool (Looker, Tableau, Mode, or similar)
• Curiosity and speed in picking up new technical concepts and frameworks, and a track record of getting productive on unfamiliar stacks
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to explain data clearly to non-technical partners
• Care for accuracy and detail in work the newsroom will act on
• Experience with large-scale data warehouses like 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/LLM tooling to speed up analytical workflows

Benefits:

• For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.