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The Wall Street Journal · 5 hours ago

Film Reporter

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$120K/yr - $150K/yr

4+ years exp

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a Film & Culture Reporter for its Weekend & WSJ Magazine entertainment team to provide engaging coverage of movie and TV releases. The role involves reporting, writing, and delivering insightful content that resonates with readers, while also collaborating with the team to create compelling narratives about the entertainment industry.

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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

Qualification

Feature storytellingReporting skillsWriting skillsIndustry contactsAudience engagementVisual thinkingCollaborative attitudeAttention to detailSense of humor

Required

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