Fashion & Lifestyle Bureau Chief

Dow Jones•New York, NY

3d•$140,000 - $180,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Wall Street Journal’s Features & WSJ. Magazine team is seeking a dynamic and experienced Fashion & Lifestyle bureau chief to run reporters and help identify, assign and shepherd lively stories, essays and columns on service & consumable culture, including style, shopping, travel, food & wine, restaurants, cars and beyond. Working collaboratively with columnists and reporters on the Features team and with those on other news teams, the ideal candidate is a self-starting editor experienced in lifestyle feature coverage with a talent for concepting and creating memorable, shareable and visual digital-first stories about living well. A proven history of showing how travel, food, hospitality, fashion and lifestyle storytelling can live across platforms—from vertical video to social carousel to newsletter to app—is essential as The Journal broadens its storytelling formats in this area. The Journal’s Features teams blend deep reporting, sharp wit and good taste to create compulsively readable quick-turn stories, timely analysis 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. Editors on the team are also expected to conceive, assign and edit long-lead stories—think exclusive sit-down interviews and juicy narrative storytelling—for WSJ. Magazine.

Requirements

5 to 8+ years experience as an editor on lifestyle or similar topics, including editing essays or columns, reported feature stories, and well-developed enterprise or longer-form 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.
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 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.

Responsibilities

Assign, edit and multiple stories per week that speak to the best of travel, food, wine, cars and lifestyle, sating weekend-reading appetites—or the feel of a luxurious weekend on a Tuesday at 3 p.m.
Manage and coach dedicated reporters and columnists within the Fashion & Lifestyle bureau, and engage other reporters around the Features team and Journal newsroom to pitch in great stories.
Burst with highly shareable, witty, ambitious story ideas for your team with clearly understood news value and elegant execution.
Bring a deeply seasoned knowledge of key fashion and lifestyle trends and a good roster of sources and contacts in the travel, hospitality, food, fashion or lifestyle world to help garner exclusives, identify trends, develop features and work toward access-driven stories we own.
Easily modulate between editing 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 others—both with Features editors as well as with our style and culture teams of reporters.
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 Features 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 Journal’s codes of conduct and overall Standards & Ethics rules are scrupulously met.