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About the Role
The Wall Street Journal's Features team is seeking a dynamic, experienced bureau chief to lead Mansion, our luxury real estate section. This role involves overseeing digital coverage and a weekly print section, serving a sophisticated audience interested in the luxury real estate market, its trends, and its cultural impact. You will lead a high-profile team known for breaking news, identifying market shifts, and producing authoritative, engaging, and visually driven stories across multiple platforms.
Responsibilities
- Assign and edit multiple stories weekly covering real estate and homeownership, including market, investment, architecture, and design.
- Manage and coach dedicated reporters and columnists on the Mansion desk.
- Build strong partnerships across Features and the broader newsroom to enhance real estate coverage.
- Generate ambitious, highly shareable story ideas with clear news value and a strong real-estate hook.
- Bring deep experience covering real estate and a strong understanding of the property market.
- Develop a well-developed network of sources across the industry to break news and uncover trends.
- Edit surprising, engaging, and well-reported feature stories alongside fast, news-driven deal reporting.
- Amplify traditional profiles, trends, and event stories with humanizing detail and a sharp eye for shareable narratives.
- Embrace audience data, using metrics alongside editorial judgment, taste, and ideas to shape coverage.
- Ensure the top-tier execution and ethical standards of The Wall Street Journal and WSJ. Magazine are consistently met.
Requirements
- 5 to 8+ years of experience as an editor on real estate or similar topics.
- Experience editing fast-breaking news, reported feature stories, and enterprise or longer-form features.
- Experience editing complex subject matter.
- Ability to identify potential legal issues.
- Ability to enhance storytelling for a mobile audience and sustain audience attention across platforms.
- Proven history of finding unexpected takes on the real estate world.
- 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.
- Sense of humor and ability to find clever ways into widely covered stories.
- Meticulous approach to facts and details, with the ability to push teams to avoid errors.
- Visual thinking and interest in how stories present across platforms.
- Collaborative, team-player attitude, upbeat outlook, and entrepreneurial spirit.
Skills
- Real estate coverage
- Luxury real estate
- Editing
- Digital storytelling
- Multi-platform content creation
- Audience engagement
- News judgment
- Visual storytelling
- Source development
- Collaboration
- Data analysis
Location
- New York, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 5 to 8+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $140,000.00 - $180,000.00
Benefits
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, and wellbeing.
- Optional benefits to meet diverse needs.
About the Company
- The Wall Street Journal's Features team is seeking a dynamic, experienced bureau chief to run Mansion, our luxury real estate section.
- Business Area: Dow Jones - News - WSJ
- Job Category: Editorial/Journalism
- Union Status: Non-Union role
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
- EEO/Disabled/Vets
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application and/or interview process.