Business Features Editor

Job Description

The Wall Street Journal’s Features & WSJ. Magazine team is seeking a dynamic and experienced business features editor to help identify, assign and shepherd lively, big-picture weekend reads springing from the most gripping corporate and financial stories of the day. Working collaboratively with reporters on the Weekend team and with those on other news teams, the ideal candidate is a self-starting editor experienced in fast-paced news-feature coverage with a talent for concepting and creating memorable, shareable and visual stories about the consumer culture, business personalities and macro trends in the global economy.

A knowledge of how to shape and pinpoint stepback, character-driven narratives that touch the corporate world is essential, as is the ability to bulletproof fast-moving news stories on deadline with sourcing, legal and ethical considerations.

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.

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 .

• Assign, edit and bulletproof multiple stories per week that speak to stepback, weekend-reading appetites—what is the larger picture or bigger thesis? What is the unknown story or hidden character drama in this headline or brand name?
• Work with news reporters around the newsroom in the Journal’s New York and global bureaus to come in on the biggest news stories of the day.
• Coach reporters to see around corners, and personally uncover stories no one else is chasing, developing them into juicy features and engaging reads.
• Push to amplify traditional profiles, trend or event stories with humanizing detail and great eye for shareable, well-crafted narrative that shows potential for cover story billing.
• Be a hands‑on bulletproof er of stories, ensuring they are well reported, compellingly written, visually striking, and adhere to Journal standards for rigorous sourcing and ethics under tight deadlines.
• Push your stories to deliver on various forms of storytelling including visuals, social, graphics and videos, ensuring collaboration around the newsroom to reach audiences in fresh formats.
• Embody the coverage area’s mission to simultaneously inform and entertain.
• 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.

• 7 to 10+ years experience as a news features editor, including time running reporters, editing stories, commissioning coverage and working on storytelling of all types.
• Journalistic ambition and “run toward the fire” energy in coming in on the biggest business‑news stories of the day with a stepback, narrative approach. Strong sense of news‑cycle timing and when broader stories will be perfectly timed.
• A sharp sense of what our digital audiences are talking about and how to connect with them. A comfort with audience data, showing the ability to draw strong inferences and go‑forward plans about what succeeds or doesn’t.
• A meticulous approach to pushing reporters on getting facts and details exactly right, knowing how to avoid errors and bulletproof high‑profile, consequential stories with a close attention to detail.
• A collaborative spirit and eagerness to partner collaboratively with other editors and reporters across various newsroom teams.
• A sense of humor, including a demonstrated ability to find clever, intelligent ways into stories that are being widely covered.
• Visual thinking and a vested interest in how your stories will look and present across all mediums.
• A commitment to ensuring the scruples, ethical…