Data Journalist Housing Market

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As a Data Journalist - Housing Market reporting to the Editor-in-Chief of Redfin News youll use Redfins robust real estate data and novel insights to educate consumers and drive news on a range of topics from home decor to housing affordability and generational attitudes about homeownership. As a member of the communications team youll partner with our economics team and real estate agents to create data-driven content that is informative and shareable. This role requires someone who can juggle multiple stories at once and produce high-quality content at volume.

The Role

• Write compelling newsworthy data-driven articles about a range of housing and lifestyle-related topics that are interesting to national media the real estate industry and consumers.

• Be able to produce consistently high-quality content on a schedule react quickly to news cycles and manage time and workload independently.

• Be comfortable getting on the phone with Redfin real estate agents customers and other industry experts to uncover and report on real estate trends and insights.

• Be just as comfortable collaborating with data scientists and economists to pair anecdotes with data to report on emerging trends in real time.

Housing Market Focus

• This role will be focused on reporting on Redfins trove of data about national and local housing market trends in real time.

• This writer will be responsible for writing and publishing several of Redfins established monthly and quarterly reports about trends in housing market activity.

• There will also be plenty of opportunities to identify and report on emerging housing market trends.

• The person in this position will be encouraged to become familiar with and explore proprietary and public datasets and to regularly pitch and own new one-off and recurring report topics.

• We are also hiring for a similar role Data Journalist - Lifestyle which will focus on reporting on home design and decor trends and timely and viral stories about the way Americans are living.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Bachelors degree required.

• Minimum of 3 years working in online media or print journalism. Experience writing about housing and real estate topics is a plus.

• Strong analytical skills: youre able to dig out big-picture stories from a spreadsheet or a handful of anecdotes.

• Writer storyteller: youre able to churn out easy-to-read articles that are not only grammatically correct and typo-free but make complex topics easy to understand.

• Proficient at using word processing data visualization and blog publishing software and tools to write drafts shepherd them through the editing process and publish articles.

• Solid understanding of SEO and GEO.

• Comfortable with a fast paced quick turnaround work environment.

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The position may also be eligible for an annual bonus incentives and other employment-related benefits including but not limited to medical dental and vision benefits 401K retirement plan and paid time off. More information regarding these benefits and others can be found here. The information regarding compensation and other benefits included in this paragraph is only an estimate and is subject to revision from time to time as the Company in its sole and exclusive discretion deems appropriate. The Company may determine during its review of the proposed compensation and benefits provided for this position that the compensation and benefits for such position should be no event will the Company reduce the compensation for the position to a level below the applicable jurisdictional minimum wage rate for the position.

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