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Digital Editor

Employer
Dow Jones
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$DoE
Closing date
25 Nov 2021

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Industry
Journalist
Job Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Sector
Digital
Discipline
Digital Editor

Job Details

Job Description:

The Wall Street Journal Opinion section is looking for a digital editor to join our editorial features team. The digital editor will be responsible for scheduling, packaging and publishing op-ed content for online platforms, including WSJ.com, the mobile app, Apple News and more. The digital editor would consult with editors on digital display with SEO, clickiness and shareability in mind. This person would head up digital and platform innovation for the editorial features team to create special issues and online-only packages. This is an opportunity for someone with a creative vision to pitch and execute new approaches to digital storytelling of opinion content.

We're looking for someone who is versatile and highly skilled in all aspects of editing and production, including coming up with the most compelling headlines for online. Successful candidates must have extensive experience commissioning, editing and assembling digital journalism, with strong visual and presentation skills and a gift for collaborating with art directors, photo editors and writing staff. This person must be skilled at rewriting, and otherwise improving copy, finishing stories on deadline throughout the day for digital.

While you may start this job remotely, you will eventually be based in our New York office.

About the Opinion Section:

Following the American newspaper practice, the heads of News and Editorial report independently to the publisher of the Journal and CEO of Dow Jones, Almar Latour. The Editorial staff oversees the Opinion content published on WSJ.com, the editorial and op-ed pages of The Wall Street Journal in print, and criticism of books and the arts, which are recognized at the Journal as an Opinion function.

While The Wall Street Journal's news pages are committed to informing our readers, our editorials are dedicated to advocating a consistent philosophy and positions that emanate from it. That philosophy can be summed up as 'free markets, free people.'

We believe that the ultimate function of opinion journalism is the same as the rest of the newspaper, to inform. But in opinion journalism we have the additional purpose of making an argument for a point of view. We often take sides on the major issues of politics and society, with a goal of moving policies or events in what we think is the best direction for the country and world. In stating our own views forcefully, we hope to raise and sharpen the level of debate and knowledge. And we hope that our editorials reflect not merely the passing whim of passing editors, but a body of thought shaped by a century of tradition.

Responsibilities include:
  • Heads up digital and platform innovation to create special issues and online-only packages.
  • Pitch and execute new approaches to digital storytelling of opinion content
  • Consults with editors on digital display with SEO and shareability, with the WSJ reader in mind.
  • Consults on visual presentation, particularly in terms of how art for stories must be suitable for both print and digital or, if not, that digital-specific art is created.

Strong candidates will have the following skills and experience:
  • 2 - 4 years of digital-publishing and editing experience in a newsroom setting
  • It is essential that candidates be familiar with the ideas, philosophy and principles for which The Wall Street Journal's editorial page stands
  • Extensive experience commissioning, editing and assembling digital journalism
  • Strong writing and editing capabilities with SEO in mind.
  • Collaborative with strong communication skills
  • The ability to work under deadline pressure
  • Experience using CMS software
  • Well versed in SEO and social-media strategy

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets .

Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, please reach out to us at TalentResourceTeam@dowjones.com. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line.

Business Area: EDITORIAL

Job Category: News/Editorial Group

About Us

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world's top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron's, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.

If you are a current employee at Dow Jones, do not apply here. Please go to the Career section on your Workday homepage and view "Find Jobs - Dow Jones." Thank you.

Req ID: 26667

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We break stories, influence ideas, and advance business intelligence and cultural interest.

We expose the events that turn markets, the digital breakthroughs that transform art, the demand that drives invention, as well as the political and societal passing moments and lasting consequences.

We are the people of Dow Jones. From different fields, backgrounds and viewpoints we invite you to join us.

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