The Wall Street Journal · 16 hours ago
Fashion & Lifestyle Bureau Chief
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$140K/yr - $180K/yr
5+ years expThe Wall Street Journal is seeking a dynamic and experienced Fashion & Lifestyle Bureau Chief to lead a team of reporters and create engaging stories on lifestyle topics. The role involves editing, assigning, and managing content that spans travel, food, fashion, and more, with a focus on delivering visually compelling narratives across various platforms.
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Responsibilities
Assign, edit and multiple stories per week that speak to the best of travel, food, wine, cars and lifestyle, sating weekend-reading appetites—or the feel of a luxurious weekend on a Tuesday at 3 p.m
Manage and coach dedicated reporters and columnists within the Fashion & Lifestyle bureau, and engage other reporters around the Features team and Journal newsroom to pitch in great stories
Burst with highly shareable, witty, ambitious story ideas for your team with clearly understood news value and elegant execution
Bring a deeply seasoned knowledge of key fashion and lifestyle trends and a good roster of sources and contacts in the travel, hospitality, food, fashion or lifestyle world to help garner exclusives, identify trends, develop features and work toward access-driven stories we own
Easily modulate between editing surprising, well-reported feature stories and whimsical, amusing essays or interviews. Embody the Features and WSJ. Magazine mission to simultaneously inform and entertain
Work collaboratively and egolessly with others—both with Features editors as well as with our style and culture teams of reporters
Know how to amplify traditional profiles, trends or event stories with humanizing detail and great eye for shareable, well-crafted narrative that show potential for long-form WSJ. Magazine inclusion as features or as Features cover stories
Embrace audience data, learning or continuing to fuse metrics with great taste and imaginative ideas
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
Qualification
Required
5 to 8+ years experience as an editor on lifestyle or similar topics, including editing essays or columns, reported feature stories, and well-developed enterprise or longer-form features
Exceptional display skills and a sophisticated understanding of how to grab audience attention across platforms
A proven history of finding unexpected takes on the lifestyle world, as well as an eye for elevated cultural and visually sumptuous stories that appeal to a general audience
Great contacts 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 push your team to avoid errors and bulletproof high-profile, visible stories with an attention to detail
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
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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