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About the Role
The Wall Street Journal is seeking experienced Digital Production Editors to join its new Digital Production Team. This role combines rigorous copy-editing with strategic programming and audience development expertise, requiring fluency in both areas. The team curates and publishes content across WSJ's digital platforms, supports news editors, and shapes how journalism reaches readers.
Responsibilities
- Edit copy to the highest standards of grammar, style, accuracy, and clarity, quickly and on deadline.
- Make independent packaging and presentation decisions for breaking news, features, and enterprise journalism with strong news judgment.
- Write headlines optimized for SEO and digital engagement, captions, sells, and push alerts.
- Execute daily programming decisions across WSJ platforms, using audience data to inform real-time curation.
- Apply sophisticated knowledge of SEO principles across all relevant fields, tags, and headline structures.
- Craft display text for off-platform distribution across channels including Google, social media, and aggregators.
- Apply metadata, in-house coding, and all technical publishing requirements correctly and consistently without reference.
- Troubleshoot digital publishing issues as they arise, escalating when appropriate and resolving when possible.
- Liaise with the London production hub to ensure seamless publishing continuity across time zones.
- Collaborate with reporters, coverage editors, and audience, strategy, and social teams to execute audience-first publishing.
- Uphold Dow Jones standards and ethics in every editorial decision.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in digital news editing, platform curation, or a role requiring both.
- Demonstrable competency across copy editing and digital programming.
- A track record of strong, independent news judgment under deadline pressure.
- Expert-level proficiency with digital publishing tools, metadata, and newsroom workflows.
- Deep, applied knowledge of SEO best practices and audience data platforms, with the ability to act on both in real time.
- Experience curating digital homepages, app feeds, or equivalent native platform surfaces.
- Fluency editing across media types: text, graphics, captions, push copy, and social.
- The ability to work independently and as a team contributor with equal effectiveness.
- Composure and flexibility in a fast-moving, high-stakes editorial environment.
Skills
- Copy editing
- Digital programming
- News judgment
- Headline writing
- SEO optimization
- Audience engagement
- Digital publishing tools
- Metadata
- Newsroom workflows
- Audience data platforms
- Curation
- Editing across media types
- Collaboration
- Troubleshooting
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $90,000 - $100,000
Benefits
- Comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, and wellbeing.
- Optional benefits to meet diverse needs.
About the Company
- The Wall Street Journal is a global leader in business and financial news.
- Dow Jones is committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation.
- Dow Jones operates in the News - WSJ business area.
- This is an Editorial/Journalism job category.
- This is a 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.