The Globe and Mail building at 444 Front Street West in Toronto.Kevin Van Paassen/The Globe and Mail
The Globe and Mail is seeking an interactive journalist for a three-month, full-time summer contract job.
The right candidate will join a team of multimedia journalists to create interactive content, data visualizations and multimedia presentations for mobile, online and in print.
Working with reporters and editors, this "journalist-developer" will help craft new storytelling formats while using The Globe's existing tools to tell stories in the best way possible on globeandmail.com and its mobile and tablet products.
Here are some examples of the types of multimedia projects (large and small) you may be working on:
- Last moments of Lac-Mégantic: Survivors share their stories
- Portraits of the lost of Lac-Mégantic
- The Wealth Paradox multimedia feature
- Proof that young adults have it worse than 30 years ago
- Crossing the line: Chronicling Mexico's drug war
- Live by-election results
- 19 incredible things you must see at Nuit Blanche
- Highlights from the Throne Speech
The right candidate will have a rich portfolio demonstrating his/her background in journalism and his/her comprehensive knowledge of HTML, CSS, and Javascript or jQuery. Other relevant skills would include Photoshop, Excel, Python, PHP and Javascript libraries including Raphael, D3 and Bootstrap. Knowledge of mobile design and social media would be essential. Moreover, the selected candidate should have a passion for multimedia storytelling and a desire to innovate.
We accept expressions of interest by e-mail only. No phone calls, please!
The deadline for applications is noon ET, Friday, Dec. 13, 2013. Interviews will be conducted after that.
Please e-mail the following to summerjobs2014@globeandmail.com
- Resume, including relevant experience, as an attachment.
- A 100-word explanation of what you would bring to The Globe or its digital operations.
- Examples of your work as noted above.
The large volume of applicants we receive every year means we cannot respond to everyone who applies. But you will hear from us shortly after the deadline if you are chosen for an interview. If you are chosen for an interview, please spend a little time with The Globe and Mail and our digital products before we see you.