Senior Data & Graphics Editor, CNN

Your New Role

CNN's global Visuals team is growing, and we're looking for an interdisciplinary journalist with deep experience in cartography, geospatial analysis and visual storytelling.

This editor will produce essential, creative and ambitious journalism across breaking news, daily coverage and enterprise projects, with a particular emphasis on maps and location-based storytelling.

As a member of the global Visuals team, you will work closely with editors, reporters, designers and developers across CNN to contextualize the news and help audiences understand the most important stories of the day.

Role Accountabilities

• Produce clear, accurate and engaging maps, charts and graphics for breaking news, daily coverage and medium- to long-term enterprise projects.
• Identify and pitch opportunities for map-driven, visual and data-led storytelling tied to the news cycle.
• SOURCE, CLEAN, ANALYZE AND INTERPRET GEOGRAPHIC DATASETS FROM PUBLIC RECORDS, APIs, SATELLITE IMAGERY AND OTHER SOURCES.
• Develop original reporting and analysis that helps audiences understand where events are happening, how places are changing and why geography matters to a story.
• Work closely with reporters, editors, designers and developers to integrate maps and visual storytelling into CNN’s coverage.
• Contribute to CNN’s elections coverage by working with election results, geographic and demographic datasets to produce accurate, clear and compelling maps and visual analysis.
• Contribute to live and planned coverage of major news events, including elections, international conflicts, extreme weather and other breaking stories.
• ADEPTLY ADAPT VISUAL APPROACHES FOR DIFFERENT DEVICES, PLATFORMS AND DISTRIBUTION NEEDS, INCLUDING HOME SCREENS AND OFF-PUBLICATION STORYTELLING.
• EXPERIMENT WITH EMERGING TOOLS AND FORMATS, INCLUDING INTERACTIVE MAPPING, SATELLITE IMAGERY, 3D TERRAIN, WEBGL AND OTHER FORMS OF GEOGRAPHIC STORYTELLING.

Qualifications & Experience

• At least 7 years of experience in a newsroom or comparable data visualization, cartography or visual journalism environment.
• A strong portfolio of published map-driven journalism, including work produced on deadline and more ambitious enterprise projects.
• Advanced experience with geospatial analysis and modern mapping tools such as QGIS, ArcGIS, Mapbox, MapLibre, D3.js or similar platforms.
• Experience working with elections data, electoral geography or political mapping – including familiarity with results data, district boundaries and demographic datasets – is strongly preferred.
• Strong editorial judgment, attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across desks, disciplines and time zones.
• Ability to source, clean and analyze geospatial data and translate complex findings into clear, accessible visuals.
• Help adapt visual stories and graphics for home screens, apps and off-platform distribution.
• Experience using some combination of Illustrator, ai2html, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, R, SQL, Excel and Git or the command line.
• Experience balancing quick-turn breaking news graphics with medium- and long-term projects.
• Curiosity and openness to experimenting with new techniques, tools and storytelling formats.