Job Description:
Summer 2024 Internship - Data Analyst
Application Deadline: February 29, 2024
We encourage you to submit your application as soon as you can as internship applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Internship Dates: June 3, 2024 - August 9, 2024 (You must be available to work during this period)
About us:
Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world’s largest news-gathering operations globally. It is home to leading publications and products including the flagship Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by paid circulation; Barron’s, MarketWatch, Mansion Global, Financial News, Investor’s Business Daily, Factiva, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Newswires, OPIS and Chemical Market Analytics. Dow Jones is a division of News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).
About the Role
You will report to the Manager, Analytics on our Insights and Solutions teams.
The Data Analyst intern will be an integral member of the Dow Jones Data Insights & Solutions teams in our New York City office. The role will support projects of data insights, engineering, and transformation strategy, which in turn supports the larger strategic goals at Dow Jones. This role would support either the Consumer or Professional Information side of the business, which includes Factiva, Risk & Compliance, WSJ, Barron’s, MarketWatch and more; but may also include exposure to other areas of the business, such as advertising.
This role is hybrid, based in our New York City office.
You Will:
- Assist with customer-facing report deliveries, both existing and ad hoc requests
- Interpret trends from data and work closely with stakeholders to enable them to understand the dynamics behind the data
- Contribute to the development of daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly dashboards and assist in building new dashboards using Adobe, Tableau, Google Analytics, or other approved data visualization tools leveraging our own internal data lakes
- Apply fundamental skills in quantitative analysis, data exploration, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with our products
- Support the company’s use of state-of-the art technology end-to-end; from data pipelines, to analysis, models, algorithms and visualization
You Have:
- Completed at least 2 years toward your Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative subject (Statistics, Engineering, Economics, etc.)
- Exposure to data analysis and problem solving with large amounts of diverse data
- Basic fluency in SQL, Python or knowledge of relational databases and methods for efficiently retrieving data
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills are required including advanced formulas and functions
- Effective verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate the results of analyses clearly and effectively
- Demonstrated curiosity to dive into available data and enjoy searching for patterns that could indicate new insights
- Exposure to cloud infrastructure, such as AWS/S3, is a plus
- Hands-on coding experience is a plus
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Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at
[email protected]. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.
Business Area:
Dow Jones - Experience - Data & AI
Job Category:
Administration, Facilities & Secretarial
Union Status:
Non-Union rolePay Range: $21.00/hour - $21.00/hourWe recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate’s experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..
