Mar. 23, 2026 — Remapping Debate is looking for an experienced data journalist. The work is to develop data visualizations that materially deepen public understanding of public-policy questions we are pursuing. More precisely, we are interested both in problems already treated as public-policy questions and in problems that ought to be treated that way. Before going further, you should look at some of what we have published.
Compensation and benefits
$80,000 - $95,000 to start.
Six weeks of paid vacation.
Full employer reimbursement of healthcare premiums (up to the level of the “New York State of Health” Marketplace Platinum Plan we’ve benchmarked). That’s not just for you; it’s for you and, as applicable, spouse or domestic partner, and children.
You would be able to work remotely.
Who we are looking for
We are looking for a data journalist who can take an assignment based on Remapping Debate’s hypothesis from data sourcing to finished visualization. We anticipate that there will be, in many cases, a larger reporting component than has previously been the case with most of our data visualizations.
The data-visualization side means being able to track down the relevant data sources, assess their strengths and weaknesses, organize the data meticulously, work with us to interrogate the data, and then build illuminating, publication-ready visualizations in Tableau (see sidebar). It also means documenting everything.
Anticipate that we will want to discuss the reporting and look at the data at every stage of the process. You would need to be comfortable with that. You would also need to be as ready to make suggestions as to receive them. Note: we are not amenable to wandering away from the central question simply because some other pattern in the data also happens to be interesting.
This is not generic dashboard work. It is data journalism in the service of explanatory public-policy reporting.
Remapping Debate’s reporting, beyond data visualizations, covers domestic public policy across a wide range of subjects, including housing, health care, education, taxation, market failures and successes, regulatory failures and successes, identarianism, immigration, law, justice, civil rights, and public safety. Many of our recent stories have been tied to New York City, but we have reported, and will continue to report, on issues of national concern.
We are often interested in reframing questions: from “what is adequate?” to “what is optimal?” Or from current practice to the range of alternatives — those tried in the United States in the past, those tried elsewhere, past or present, and those that so far have only been imagined.