Style Columnist

Style & Fashion Columnist Features in New York NY

Job Description:

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a New York-based style and fashion columnist on its Features & WSJ. Magazine team to deliver charming well-observed columns and coverage on fashion and style moments in the wider culture; profiles of distinctive and interesting designers creative directors and industry CEOs; and delectable trend stories and features that are one step ahead of the group chat. This role covers both mens and womens fashion and style.

The ideal candidate is a high-metabolism feature reporter with a sense of whimsy and a zeal for chasing distinctive visual and character-driven stories that touch the worlds of fashion and style as well as the good sourcing and unique eye to weigh in on debates tearing across Substack and Instagram. They will excel at calling the moment in confident columns with a national news-oriented audience whether a tech executive sits front row in Milan a political leader makes a state-dinner statement or an awards carpet or brands repositioning touches off fierce debate.

While knowledge of the fashion and style industry is key an explicit background covering only fashion is not requiredwere privileging the right distinctive highly engaging voice and an ability to interpret visual ideas in a vivid manner across platforms for the Wall Street Journal audience. Some biannual travel to fashion shows and events is expected.

The Journals overall Features team blends deep reporting sharp wit and good taste to create compulsively readable quick-turn stories timely analysis pieces and enterprise narratives 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.

Reporters on the team are also expected to pitch and write long-lead storiesthink sprawling profiles or insightful trend featuresfor WSJ. Magazine.

You will:

• Report write and fact-check an average one column per week about a trend person news event or conversation in the style and fashion world.

• Burst with highly shareable witty ambitious story ideas with clearly understood news value and elegant execution.

• Bring a deeply seasoned knowledge of key power players and a good roster of sources and contacts to help garner story ideas identify trends develop features and work toward access-driven exclusive stories we own.

• Easily modulate between surprising well-reported feature stories and whimsical amusing essays or interviews. Embody the Features and WSJ. Magazine mission to simultaneously inform and entertain.

• Work collaboratively and egolessly with othersboth with Features editors as well as with our style and culture teams of reporters including reporters covering the luxury industry in our Paris and London bureaus.

• Uncover angles and ideas no one else is chasing and develop them into engaging reads. Amplify traditional profiles trends or event stories with humanizing detail and great eye for shareable well-crafted narrative that show potential for long-form features or as Weekend cover stories.

• Embrace audience data learning or continuing to fuse metrics with great taste and imaginative ideas.

• Ensure the voice tone and standards of The Wall Street Journal are consistently met; that stories are accurate fair objective and of impeccable quality. Scrupulously uphold newsroom policies and procedures around ethics and conduct.
  

You have:

• Unputdownable clips and exceptional writing and reporting skills.

• At least 5 years experience covering a relevant beat including essays or columns reported feature stories and well-developed enterprise or longer-form features.

• A proven history of finding unexpected takes on the style and fashion world or larger creative-culture worlds as well as an eye for visually intriguing stories that appeal to a general audience.

• Great contacts 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 avoid errors and bulletproof high-profile consequential stories with a close attention to detail.

• A sharp sense of how to connect with digital audiences.

• 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 Fashion & Lifestyle within the Features team. This is a fulltime position based in our New York NY office.

To apply please submit a cover letter describing your experience and interest in this job a detailed resume and five clips with a sentence or two as to what the stories show about your capabilities by July 2. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and we encourage early submission as the position may be filled before the deadline.

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Business Area:

Dow Jones - News - WSJ

Job Category:

Editorial/Journalism

Union Status:

Union role

Base Pay Range: 120000 - 160000

Were committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidates experience skills location and other relevant factors.

For bonus-eligible roles targets are determined based on multiple considerations including market benchmarks and individual contributions.

For benefits-eligible roles we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health retirement wellbeing and more along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.