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Young Voices Editor, The Wall Street Journal - NY

Employer
Dow Jones
Location
New York
Salary
$DoE
Closing date
Mar 7, 2019

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Industry
Journalist
Job Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Sector
Nationals, Online, Digital
Discipline
Editorial, Editor, Digital Editor

Job Details

The Wall Street Journal seeks a New York-based editor to oversee a new initiative to solicit and edit articles, videos, essays and storytelling in other formats by people in their teens and 20s.

This editor will be a public-facing ambassador at universities to deepen the relationship the Journal has with college and graduate students, and the editor will run an editorial process to publish content created by students, young adults and young professionals.

This editor will work as part of a team creating a new digital magazine for young people. The magazine is a project tied to the Journal's strategy department, which is an incubator for new technologies, audience growth, community and news innovation.

The department includes the full range of journalistic talent that makes the Journal one of the leading news organizations in the world -- writers, video journalists, graphics designers, editors, product managers, engineers, designers, data scientists, artificial intelligence experts and more -- in a lively, collaborative project to discover new offerings of journalistic value.

The young voices editor job offers the right candidate the ability to own a multi-dimensional project and also to collaborate with others in the newsroom and product, design and engineering teams to create an exciting community of young people connecting over thoughtful content.

This editor should have good storytelling and news judgment and a comfort with audience data as an input in decision-making. The position requires proficiency with digital publishing tools, and good knowledge of the markers of quality in various mediums.

Qualifications

  • At least 3 years of experience writing, editing and curating content for a high-profile publisher.
  • Someone with a lens on students and people in their teens and 20s: What are they obsessed with right now? And how do they find their content?
  • A background in writing as well as good knowledge of video, graphics, audio and other mediums is important.


Click 'Apply' now. Please include clips of your professional work in your application.

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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.

About Us

The Wall Street Journal is a global news organization that provides leading news, information, commentary and analysis. The Wall Street Journal engages readers across print, digital, mobile, social, and video.

Building on its heritage as the preeminent source of global business and financial news, the Journal includes coverage of U.S. and world news, politics, arts, culture, lifestyle, sports, and health. It holds 36 Pulitzer Prizes for outstanding journalism.

The Wall Street Journal is published by Dow Jones, a division of News Corp (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV).

 

 

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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.

Examine the world and bring it to others.

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