Visual Journalist

The National is looking for a Visual Journalist to join our Data Visualisation team. You will transform complex data and news into engaging visuals, including infographics, animations, and interactive content for online stories. This role combines creativity and technical skills to deliver accurate, impactful visual storytelling that enhances audience engagement across platforms. The ideal candidate will be excited about the prospect of telling stories using multiple tools and technologies.

Role Summary:

As a Visual Journalist, you will collaborate with data journalists, designers, and editors to create impactful visual content that enhances storytelling. You will be responsible for producing infographics, maps, and interactive charts, ensuring they are accessible and engaging across multiple platforms. Staying ahead of industry trends, you will experiment with new visual formats such as 3D and motion graphics to keep our content innovative and fresh.

Key Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years in visual storytelling with a strong portfolio.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite and data visualization tools like Tableau or Flourish.
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite (After Effects, Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator), with experience in video editing and graphic design, is also desirable.
• Familiarity with mapping software, and data visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Flourish, Datawrapper, D3.js).

This is an exciting opportunity to join a new team within an ambitious, respected news organisation renowned for its coverage of the Middle East and beyond while contributing to the future of data-driven visual storytelling.

The National is the leading news organisation in the Middle East and North Africa. Since being established in 2008, we have set a new standard for high-quality, award-winning journalism in the region be it with our reporting, videos, podcasts, social media content or newsletters. As well as our main newsroom in Abu Dhabi and its team of 150 journalists, we also have a network of correspondents in countries across the Mena region plus key bureaux in London and Washington DC as well as reporters further afield.