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About the Role
The Wall Street Journal is seeking a Senior Photo Editor for WSJ. Magazine and Style News coverage. This role blends deep reporting, intelligent wit, and good taste to create compelling stories, analysis, and features. We are looking for a candidate with a stylish sensibility, journalistic integrity, and a background in style and cultural features assigning and production. The ideal candidate will have a digital, deadline-driven background and the ability to work quickly and accurately, collaborating with editors, reporters, and contributors.
Responsibilities
- Oversee multi-pronged visual projects, including complex fashion shoots and multi-week photo-research projects.
- Collaborate closely with WSJ. Magazine and Style News photo editors, WSJ newsroom photo editors, and platform teams.
- Produce, pull, and build visual assets for Style News content across all digital platforms.
- Lead and support all phases of photo shoot production, from concept to final delivery, in coordination with the Photography Director.
- Manage multiple intricate photoshoots and coordinate image deliverables between newspaper, magazine, and digital teams.
- Pitch visually innovative and original coverage approaches tailored to different platforms and audiences.
- Develop creative visual representations for columns and analysis, focusing on social engagement.
- Maintain a monthly budget meticulously.
- Represent Journal interests professionally and negotiate rates with contractors and third-parties.
Requirements
- At least 6 to 8 years of experience in a photo-editing role.
- Extensive background in editorial production, conceptualization, and assigning of visual content.
- Excellent news judgment and fast digital editing skills.
- Expansive understanding of mobile-first experience and design.
- Strong industry relationships with photographers, photo agents, stylists, set designers, and other creative collaborators.
- Deep research skills, including newsgathering and social media tools.
- Strong organizational, communication, and collaborative abilities.
- Creative vision and enthusiasm for spearheading and collaborating on new ideas.
- Drive to reach new audiences, understanding of audience data and SEO-friendly presentation.
- Knowledge of web tools and programs, including content management systems, Photoshop, PhotoMechanic, video editing tools, FTP, and all social media platforms.
- Ability to be a self-starter who works well with larger teams.
- Report to the Photo Director of WSJ. Magazine and Style News.
Skills
- Contemporary portraiture
- Reportage
- Conceptual still-life
- Expedient research skills
- Digital editing
- Mobile-first experience
- Design
- Newsgathering
- Social media tools
- Organizational abilities
- Communication abilities
- Collaborative abilities
- Audience data
- SEO-friendly presentation
- Content management systems
- Photoshop
- PhotoMechanic
- Video editing tools
- FTP
- Social media platforms
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- 110,000 - 120,000
Benefits
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more.
- Optional benefits to meet diverse needs.
About the Company
- Dow Jones - News - WSJ
- WSJ. Magazine and Style News blend deep reporting, intelligent wit and good taste to create compulsively readable stories, analysis and features on the subjects of style, entertainment, celebrity, society, lifestyle and the arts.
Equal Opportunity
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