Film Reporter

Dow Jones•New York, NY

2d•$120,000 - $150,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a reporter on its Weekend & WSJ. Magazine entertainment team to deliver consumer-facing coverage of movie & TV releases, reporting lively and prescient trends stories and delivering clever, engaged, highly shareable viewing guides, streaming roundups, movie & TV features and packages for all ages. This is a service-oriented reporting role meant to furnish great ideas and excellent taste on what to watch to Wall Street Journal readers. The ideal candidate is a high-metabolism feature reporter bursting with fun rubric ideas and great taste in television and film, demonstrating a zeal for chasing distinctive angles and charming compendiums of the biggest releases of the day. They’ll easily furnish sharp ideas for quarterly previews, newly relevant or resurfaced “what to watch” recommendations based on trends or cultural events, and have eyes on key players in Hollywood and TV who’re ripe for interview-led recommendation stories and ways to personalize the question, What should I be watching—and why? The Journal’s Weekend 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. Reporters on the team are also expected to pitch and write long-lead stories—exclusive sit-down interviews and juicy narrative storytelling—for WSJ. Magazine.

Requirements

Unputdownable clips and exceptional writing and reporting skills.
4 to 8 years experience covering a relevant beat, including news, reported feature stories, and well-developed enterprise or long-form feature storytelling.
A proven history of finding unexpected takes on fast-moving news events, as well as an eye for film and Hollywood stories that appeal to a general audience.
A sense of humor, including a proven history of finding clever, intelligent ways into stories that are being widely covered.
A demonstrated meticulous approach to getting facts and details exactly right, minimizing corrections and bulletproofing stories with 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.

Responsibilities

Report, write and fact-check an average of three to four stories each month about movies & TV with a focus on what to watch.
Burst with highly shareable, witty, adrenalized ideas for consumable-culture roundups with real and clearly understood news value.
Bring a well-developed roster of industry contacts and knowledge of key figures and sources to help track all new releases, identify trends, and develop features and clever packages.
Work collaboratively and egolessly with others—both with senior feature storytellers focused on profiles and large narrative pieces on this beat, and with our Los Angeles bureau focused on the corporate business-side stories currently reshaping Hollywood.
Embody the Weekend and WSJ. Magazine mission to simultaneously inform and entertain, especially at the “line level”—showcasing good feature writing and relishing opportunities for writerly storytelling on an entertaining subject area.
Amplify traditional profiles of artists, fan trends or industry players with humanizing detail and great eye for 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 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.

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