News Editor, Property & Style
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
16 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Description:
The Wall Street Journals Features & WSJ. Magazine team is seeking a dynamic and experienced news editor to work across its Mansion and Fashion/Style teams to edit daily (weekday) coverage and features helping shepherd reporters and to identify assign and publish lively stories and trend pieces across both bureaus.
Working collaboratively with columnists and reporters across both teams within Weekend the ideal candidate is a self-starting editor experienced in home style fashion and lifestyle content with a talent for shaping and executing memorable shareable and visual digital-first stories. A history of showing how home and style content can live across platformsfrom vertical video to social carousel to newsletter to appis applicable as The Journal broadens its storytelling formats.
The Journals Features teams blend deep reporting sharp wit and good taste to create compulsively readable quick-turn stories timely analysis pieces and enterprise features on the subjects of lifestyle entertainment culture and ideas. Stories from this team offer a lively lens on the zeitgeist drawing connections between events and trends in the culture to form original big-picture theses about the present moment. News editors on the team are also encouraged to help conceive of long-lead storiesthink exclusive sit-down interviews and juicy narrative storytellingfor WSJ. Magazine.
You will:
Edit and shepherd multiple stories per week from the set of reporters on Mansion and Fashion/Style teams working hand-in-glove with the bureau chief of each team to shepherd and bulletproof assignments.
Burst with highly shareable witty ambitious story ideas for your coverage areas with clearly understood news value and elegant execution and assign into the news cycle.
Have a high metabolism for story edits and a run toward the fire mentality knowing when The Journal needs to show up on key stories within these areas.
Bulletproof fast-moving news stories on deadline with sourcing legal and ethical considerations and have familiarity with the level of rigor required to meet newsroom standards for publishing.
Easily modulate between editing fast news stories surprising well-reported feature stories and whimsical amusing essays or interviews. Embody the Weekend and WSJ. Magazine mission to simultaneously inform and entertain.
Work collaboratively and egolessly with othersboth with other Weekend editors as well as other reporters and editors around the newsroom.
Know how to amplify traditional profiles trends or event stories with humanizing detail and great eye for shareable well-crafted narrative that show potential for long-form WSJ. Magazine inclusion as features or as Weekend cover stories.
Embrace audience data learning or continuing to fuse metrics with great taste and imaginative ideas.
Ensure the top-tier execution and ethical standards of the Wall Street Journal and WSJ. Magazine are consistently met: that work is of impeccable quality across all platforms and that The Journals codes of conduct and overall Standards & Ethics rules are scrupulously met.
You have:
4 to 8 years experience as a news editor on lifestyle or similar topics including editing essays or columns reported feature stories and features.
Exceptional display skills and a sophisticated understanding of how to grab audience attention across platforms.
A proven history of finding unexpected takes on the lifestyle world as well as an eye for elevated cultural and visually sumptuous stories that appeal to a general audience.
Good contacts with freelancers and a dogged indefatigable sense of how to make stories happen.
A sense of humor including a demonstrated ability to find clever intelligent ways into stories that are being widely covered.
A meticulous approach to getting facts and details exactly right knowing how to push your team to avoid errors and bulletproof high-profile visible stories with an attention to detail.
Visual thinking and a vested interest in how your stories will look and present across platforms.
A collaborative team-player attitude an upbeat outlook and an entrepreneurial spirit as we grow and evolve coverage needs.
You will report to the Bureau Chief of Property & Real Estate within the Features team. This is a fulltime position is based in our New York NY office.
To apply please submit your resume a cover letter explaining how you would approach the job and a link to a portfolio of your relevant work by March 5th. If necessary include a very brief description of the role you played in each will be reviewed on a rolling basis and we encourage early submission as the position may be filled before the deadline.
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/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 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:
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Editorial/JournalismUnion Status:
Non-Union rolePay Range: 120000 - 145000We 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..
Key Skills
- Video Editing
- Fact check
- Content Management Systems
- AP Style
- Journalism
- Translation
- Adobe Premiere
- Final Cut Pro
- Channel Management
- Wordpress
- Word Processing
- Writing Skills
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