News Editor, Property & Style

Dow Jones & Company•New York City, NY

11d•Onsite

About The Position

The Wall Street Journal’s 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 platforms—from vertical video to social carousel to newsletter to app—is applicable as The Journal broadens its storytelling formats. The Journal’s 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 stories—think exclusive sit-down interviews and juicy narrative storytelling—for WSJ. Magazine .

Requirements

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.

Responsibilities

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 others—both 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 Journal’s codes of conduct and overall Standards & Ethics rules are scrupulously met.