Health Bureau Chief
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 165000 - 200000
Posted on:
25 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description:
The Wall Street Journal seeks a bureau chief to lead our coverage of the business of health particularly focused on pharmaceutical and health-care companies.
The mission takes numerous forms in the day-to-day -- leading daily news coverage projects or major coverage themes strategizing with reporters and helping determine the best ways to tell stories and explore big ideas.
We are looking for a highly digital enterprising editor with a passion for coverage that dissects topics that define peoples lives. You are an accomplished journalist with experience finding fresh angles off the news and producing high-metabolism high-quality coverage.
You take creative approaches to storytelling conceptualizing and executing coverage in new formats; you are a problem solver and a coach who helps develop talent and inspires success. You are highly organized and excel at bulletproof copy. This bureau will run the gamut from breaking news to deeply reported investigations and it needs a leader with experience doing both.
The job is based in New York City and will be a part of the Business Finance & Economics coverage team.
You will:
Manage a team of reporters
Guide daily coverage working with reporters to jump on news and elevate stories;
Drive ideas with reporters and ensure stories and packages remain on track and on topic;
Edit stories;
Help develop new features
Incorporate audience data into story planning and work with social programming and strategy colleagues to ensure maximum reach.
You have:
At least 8 years of experience managing reporters at a high level
Experience working with reporters or producers to develop ideas and coverage;
Excellent line editing and headline-writing skills ideally with a specialty in financial topics and service journalism;
High standards and an ironclad commitment to accuracy;
Experience working on digital platforms and new forms of storytelling;
Coaching skills on and off-deadline and the ability to keep teams focused and positive.
To apply please submit your resume a cover letter explaining how you would approach the job and examples of your work by Friday November 14th.
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Dow Jones - News - WSJJob Category:
Editorial/JournalismUnion Status:
Non-Union rolePay Range: $165000 - $200000We 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..Required Experience:
Chief
Key Skills
- Administrative Skills
- Time Management
- Policy Development
- Listening Skill
- Leadership skills
- Organizational Skill
- Oversight Management
- Communication
- Legislature Development
- Legal & Compliance
- Relationship Management
- Strategic Thinking Skills
- Team Player Spirit
- Management Skill
- Problem Solving Skills
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