Description
The Wall Street Journal's Features team is seeking a dynamic, experienced bureau chief to run Mansion, our luxury real estate section.
Through its digital coverage and weekly print section, this section serves a broad and sophisticated audience: wealthy homeowners and real-estate professionals tracking the market and its biggest trends; aspirational readers who turn to it as a dream book; and anyone interested in social, cultural and economic forces shaping the world through the lens of real estate.
This is an opportunity to lead a high-profile team that is prized for its ability to break major news, uncover market-moving shifts, produce deeply reported stories with real authority, as well as smart, buzzy features that capture the culture around homeowning.
Working collaboratively with columnists and reporters across Features and with teams throughout the newsroom, the ideal candidate is a self-starting editor with deep experience in real estate and home coverage and a sharp instinct for conceiving distinctive and highly visual digital stories.
Responsibilities:
- Assign and edit multiple stories each week that explore the best of real estate and homeownership, from market and investment stories to architecture and design, delivering smart, engaging and useful reading for a broad audience.
- Manage and coach dedicated reporters and columnists on the Mansion desk, while building strong partnerships across Features and the broader newsroom to bring the best reporters and ideas to real estate coverage.
- Generate ambitious, highly shareable story ideas for the team that have clear news value, a strong real-estate hook and sharp, distinctive execution.
- Bring deep experience covering real estate and a strong understanding of the property market, along with a well-developed network of sources across the industry to break news, uncover trends, develop ambitious features and identify story lines that The Journal can own.
- Easily modulate between editing surprising, engaging and well-reported feature stories with fast, news-driven deal reporting.
- Work collaboratively and egolessly with others.
- Know how to amplify traditional profiles, trends and event stories with humanizing detail and a sharp eye for shareable, well-crafted narratives.
- Embrace audience data, using metrics alongside strong editorial judgment, great taste and imaginative ideas to shape smarter real estate coverage.
- Ensure the top-tier execution and ethical standards of the Wall Street Journal and WSJ. Magazine are consistently met.
Requirements:
- 5 to 8+ years experience as an editor on real estate or similar topics.
- Experience editing complex subject matter.
- An ability to identify potential legal issues.
- An ability to enhance storytelling for our mobile audience.
- A proven history of finding unexpected takes on the real estate world.
- Great contacts and a dogged, indefatigable sense of how to make stories happen.
- A sense of humor and a demonstrated ability to find clever, intelligent ways into stories.
- A meticulous approach to getting facts and details exactly right.
- Visual thinking and a vested interest in how stories will look and present across platforms.
- A collaborative, team-player attitude, an upbeat outlook and an entrepreneurial spirit.
Benefits:
We offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.
Salary:
$140,000.00 - $180,000.00 per year