Biz Features Editor

Overview

Dow Jones & Co. — The Wall Street Journal's Weekend & 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 with experience in fast-paced news-feature coverage and 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 Weekend teams blend deep reporting, sharp wit and good taste to create compulsively readable quick-turn stories, timely analysis pieces and enterprise features on 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 develop stories into juicy features and engaging reads.
• Push to amplify traditional profiles, trend or event stories with humanizing detail and a strong eye for shareable, well-crafted narrative that shows potential for Weekend 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 stories to deliver across various storytelling formats including visuals, social, graphics and videos, collaborating across 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, with impeccable quality across platforms and adherence to the Journal's codes of conduct and Standards & Ethics rules.

• 7 to 10+ years of experience as a news features editor, including time running reporters, editing stories, commissioning coverage and working on storytelling of all types.
• Journalistic ambition and energy to cover the biggest business-news stories with a stepback, narrative approach and strong sense of news-cycle timing.
• A sharp sense of what digital audiences are talking about and the ability to connect with them. Comfort with audience data to draw inferences and plan what succeeds or doesn’t.
• A meticulous approach to pushing reporters for precise facts, ensuring high-profile stories are bulletproof with careful attention to detail.
• Collaborative spirit and eagerness to partner with editors and reporters across newsroom teams.
• A sense of humor and the ability to find clever, intelligent angles in widely covered stories.
• Visual thinking and interest in how stories will look across all mediums.
• A commitment to upholding the scruples, ethical standards, voice, and tone of The Wall Street Journal; ensuring stories are accurate, fair, and of impeccable quality.

You will report to the Bureau Chief of Weekend Ideas. This is a full-time position based in our New York, NY office. To apply, please submit your resume, a cover letter explaining how you would approach the job and a link to a portfolio of your…