Business, Finance, and Economics Coverage Chief

Job Description:

Business Finance and Economics Coverage Chief

The Wall Street Journal is seeking an exceptional leader for our most vital area of coverage: Business Finance and Economics. The ideal candidate is a strategic ambitious and driven journalist with a demonstrated capacity to manage a large team through high-stakes news cycles and set a clear long-term agenda.

This role requires a deep nuanced understanding of the business world from startups to global corporations and the economic forces that shape markets and industries.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a world-class team: Build mentor steer a group of senior leaders and reporters to foster a collaborative and high-performance culture.

• Define the coverage agenda: Set the strategic direction for our daily news flow and long-term projects ensuring our work is consistently ambitious and distinctive.

• Champion innovation: Drive new approaches to digital journalism and spearhead their adoption across the newsroom.

• Collaborate and represent: Work closely with senior leaders across our global newsroom and serve as a public face for our coverage.

Qualifications

• More than ten years of experience managing reporters or editors in a major news organization.

• Deep knowledge of the economy markets and corporations--as well as the key players and forces that drive them.

• Proven track record of managing exclusive news coverage and complex long-form journalism.

• An unwavering commitment to the highest standards of accuracy integrity and journalistic excellence.

To apply please submit a resume and a cover letter.

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Business Area:

Dow Jones - News - WSJ

Job Category:

Editorial/Journalism

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Pay Range: $285000 - $335000

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..