Visual Data Journalist Intern

Visual Data Journalist Intern

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Job Description

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CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces.  Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.  

We have been living and breathing the world of real estate information and online marketplaces for over 35 years, giving us the perspective to create truly unique and valuable offerings for our customers.  We’ve continually refined, transformed and perfected our approach to our business, creating a language that has become standard in our industry, for our customers, and even our competitors.  We continue that effort today and are always working to improve and drive innovation.  This is how we deliver for our customers, our employees, and investors.  By equipping the brightest minds with the best resources available, we provide an invaluable edge in real estate.  

CoStar is seeking a Visual Information Journalist Intern to help illustrate CoStar's biggest news stories with opportunities to also deliver stand-alone infographic data analysis of the latest industry trends. This position is both technical and research/journalistic: working closely with and reporting to the creative director, news, you will collaborate and coordinate coverage with news editors, analysts, and developers to pitch story ideas, and enrich articles with interactive features delivering innovative web experiences. In addition to your chart production and expertise, we are looking for interest in diverse news areas, including the housing and building industry, technology, legislation, housing issues, health care, economics, retail trends and the environment. You might be asked to use data to map areas affected by extreme weather, to illustrate retail trends, or the popularity of cities using data from CoStar analysis and elsewhere. As part of our news team, you will create work that pushes the boundaries of data storytelling and contributes to world-class reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Source data from internal and external sources and/or work directly with analysts to develop story ideas and create engaging, explanatory, easily absorbed data visualizations based on reporting and research.
• Develop data interactives to publish on costar.com and associated news app platform
• Take stories from pitch to publication assist other team members with data research for graphics such as generating maps
• Monitor major industry trends, leaders and companies, including news and social channels, for inspiration and industry relevance.
• Adhere to CoStar’s visual-style guide
• Research and learn new data viz tools, as needed.
• Support Social Media graphics production as needed.
• Work samples/Portfolio Links are required to send along with your resume.

Basic Qualifications:

• Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree from an accredited university with an expected graduation of December 2025 or May 2026.
• Applicants must include a link to a portfolio showcasing relevant experience.
• A high degree of curiosity, interaction design and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to look at data and quickly spot and extract news-worthy indicators.
• Experience in sourcing and cleaning data
• Familiarity in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript front-end technologies
• Capable in R and/or Python programming languages for data analysis
• Ability to communicate complex ideas and coherently “speak data” in a clear manner to a wide range of audiences; Demonstrated ability to design compelling and intuitive user interfaces.
• Familiarity with Flourish, Plotly /Datawrapper/FusionCharts or similar
• Strong ability to support multiple activities concurrently.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Interest in residential / commercial real estate/building industry, companies and economies
• Basic Experience with MapBox, ESRI, QGis, Topojson, and/or other mapping and data-viz tools
• Demonstrated ability to create compelling and intuitive user interfaces.
• Some experience with video production or graphic design using tools like Adobe Premiere, After Effects Photoshop, Illustrator, or equivalents.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity Experience in JavaScript libraries (including Node, D3, Canvas, WebGL or other rendering/animation libraries)

We welcome all qualified candidates who are currently eligible to