Bureau Chief, Mansion

Dow Jones•New York, NY

1d•$140,000 - $180,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Wall Street Journal’s Features team is seeking an experienced editor to lead Mansion, its luxury real estate section, across digital coverage and a weekly print section. Mansion serves wealthy homeowners and real-estate professionals, aspirational readers, and people interested in the social, cultural and economic forces shaping the world through real estate. The bureau chief will lead a high-profile team producing breaking news, market-moving reporting, deeply reported stories and features about the culture of homeownership. The editor will set the section’s editorial agenda, identify major stories and opportunities, develop ambitious reporting, and build on Mansion’s role as a source for understanding the real-estate market and the people, money, culture and forces shaping how and where people live. The role calls for close collaboration with reporters, columnists, Features editors and newsroom partners, as well as graphics, video, audience and platform editors, to package and amplify journalism across platforms and formats. The bureau chief will use audience data alongside editorial judgment to make coverage engaging and useful, while ensuring work meets The Journal’s quality, conduct and ethics standards. This is a full-time position based in the Wall Street Journal’s New York office. The bureau chief reports to the Deputy Coverage Chief, Features.

Requirements

5 to 8+ years of experience as an editor covering real estate or similar topics.
Experience editing fast-breaking news, reported feature stories, and enterprise or longer-form features.
Experience editing complex subject matter.
Ability to identify potential legal issues.
Ability to enhance storytelling for mobile audiences and capture and sustain attention across platforms.
A history of finding unexpected angles on real estate and identifying elevated cultural and visually sumptuous stories for a general audience.
Strong industry contacts and a persistent ability to make stories happen.
A meticulous approach to fact-checking, detail and preventing errors in high-profile stories.
Visual thinking and interest in how stories look and are presented across platforms.
Collaborative, team-oriented attitude, upbeat outlook and entrepreneurial spirit.

Nice To Haves

A sense of humor and demonstrated ability to find clever, intelligent approaches to widely covered stories.

Responsibilities

Assign and edit multiple weekly stories about real estate and homeownership, spanning markets, investment, architecture and design.
Manage and coach dedicated Mansion reporters and columnists.
Build partnerships across Features and the broader newsroom to bring strong reporters and ideas to real-estate coverage.
Generate ambitious, shareable story ideas with clear news value, a strong real-estate hook and distinctive execution.
Use industry sources and market knowledge to break news, uncover trends, develop features and identify exclusive reporting opportunities and franchises.
Edit both engaging, well-reported features and fast, news-driven deal reporting.
Collaborate with Features editors and reporters on the style and culture teams.
Strengthen profiles, trend stories and event coverage with humanizing details and well-crafted, shareable narratives.
Use audience metrics alongside editorial judgment and imaginative ideas to shape real-estate coverage.
Work with graphics, video, audience and platform editors to package and amplify journalism for audiences across formats and platforms.
Ensure journalism meets the quality and ethical standards of The Wall Street Journal and WSJ. Magazine.