The Wall Street Journal · 7 hours ago
Power & Culture Reporter
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$120K/yr - $150K/yr
5+ years expThe Wall Street Journal is seeking a New York-based culture reporter on its Features & WSJ. Magazine team to deliver trenchant, well-observed coverage of society power players and their proclivities. The role involves reporting lively and prescient news-features and delectable trend stories that explore the intersection of power, wealth, culture, and style.
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Responsibilities
Report, write and fact-check an average of three stories each month about the cultural or social side of where power and privilege meet
Burst with highly shareable, witty, adrenalized story ideas with clearly understood news value and elegant, writerly execution
Bring a deeply seasoned knowledge of key power players and a good roster of sources and contacts to help garner scoops, identify trends, develop features and work toward access-driven profiles and sitdowns
Easily modulate between tough, surprising, detail-driven enterprise stories as well as whimsical, amusing features that mine for joy and humor. Embody the Features and WSJ. Magazine mission to simultaneously inform and entertain
Work collaboratively and egolessly with others—both with fellow senior feature storytellers, as well as with our enterprise and Wall Street, D.C. or Los Angeles teams
Uncover stories no one else is chasing and develop them into juicy features and engaging reads. Amplify traditional profiles, trends or event stories with humanizing detail and great eye for shareable, well-crafted narrative that show potential as 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
Required
Unputdownable clips and exceptional writing and reporting skills
5 to 9 years experience covering a relevant beat, including news, reported feature stories, and well-developed enterprise or longer-form feature storytelling
A proven history of finding unexpected takes on fast-moving news events, as well as an eye for cultural and zeitgeist-y stories that appeal to a general audience
Great sources 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 avoid errors and bulletproof high-profile, consequential stories with a 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
Benefits
Comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package
Physical health
Retirement and savings
Caregiving
Emotional wellbeing
Transportation
Elective benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce
Company
The Wall Street Journal
Winner of 40 Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding journalism, The Wall Street Journal includes coverage of U.S.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$0.49M2015-03-31Angel· $0.49M
Leadership Team
Nitin Rakesh
Member, CEO Council
Oren Zaslansky
Member, CEO Council
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