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Job Location drjobs

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary drjobs

$ 75000 - 85000

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Job Description:

Personal Finance/Insurance Staff Writer

Buy Side from WSJ is seeking an ambitious and energetic journalist for its Personal Finance (Insurance) team. This writer will play a key role on our team translating complex insurance topics into clear consumer-friendly content.

The candidate must have experience writing articles on insurance topics have strong knowledge of insurance products experience working with data and enjoy breaking down sometimes complicated topics in a way that is interesting accurate relevant and distinctive.

The successful candidate will have experience reporting on all or most of these insurance topics: pet auto life business travel homeowners and renters.

About Buy Side from WSJ:

Dow Joness reviews and recommendations site is independent of The Wall Street Journal newsroom and dedicated to helping consumers make smart decisions about how to spend their time and money.

About the Role:
This staff writer will ensure that articles meet high quality standards of journalism while responsibly guiding readers. This role is part of the Buy Side from WSJ editorial team.


You Will:

  • Write articles on insurance topics that are relevant for WSJ subscribers.

  • Work with large data sets.

  • Ensure that sources/sourcing are appropriate for the topic.

  • Collaborate with the editorial and commerce teams on article lineups for future months to ensure relevancy for the WSJ audience.

  • Have an understanding of the audience to ensure articles are properly serving our audiences needs.

  • Work proactively with partners in the spirit of providing useful service to readers

  • Write polished clear prose that balances sensitivity with expertise.

  • Work well under pressure and collaborate effectively as part of a team.

  • Be meticulous in copy and ambitious in reporting ensuring accuracy and depth in all coverage.

  • Recommend linking opportunities to recent WSJ news articles where topics align.

  • Ensure accuracy and journalistic standards for all content.

You Have

  • 4 years of personal finance writing experience.

  • Knowledge of writing for SEO.

  • Experience working in a fast-paced high-volume environment while delivering quality content.

  • Experience with Excel Google Sheets and data management.

  • Extremely detail oriented and have high organizational skills

  • Fluency in consumer finance and economics.

  • A track record of writing unique engaging financial stories.

  • A knack for finding unique angles off the news.

  • Familiarity with affiliate revenue operations and search engine optimization is preferred.

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 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 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 - Media Sales

Job Category:

Editorial/Journalism

Union Status:

Union role

Pay Range: $75000 - $85000

We 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 candidates 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..

Employment Type

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