Job Description:
Weekend News Editor
The Wall Street Journal is looking for an autonomous senior editor to ensure our weekend news offering is best-in-class. The weekend news editor will work with editors and reporters across the newsroom to deliver fast, authoritative breaking news while also helming developing stories to ensure we deliver throughout the weekend for our readers.
This is one of the most self-starting editing roles in the newsroom. You will be responsible for setting the news agenda for Saturday, Sunday and Monday morning. You will be required to manage the curation of our digital platforms throughout the weekend, to commission and edit breaking news stories, and to select the stories for some of our most important daily lineups. You will be responsible for selecting or commissioning our Monday morning lead, an agenda-setting piece of journalism that will start the week. You will be the senior editor in charge at the weekend, with responsibility for signing off the Monday print edition of the Journal.
You will be a seasoned line editor and an all-rounder with the confidence to work on stories from all coverage areas. You will be required to oversee live coverage of political and world events over the weekend.
We are looking for an accomplished journalist with substantial experience editing a wide range of stories, who is comfortable working on everything from a crunchy economic analysis or a breaking corporate story to a world dispatch or a political sketch. A key quality will be the confidence to run the news solo on the weekends while also knowing when to call on senior editors and others in the newsroom for support.
You will work a four-day week, Thursday through Sunday.
You will be based in New York and report to David Crow, the Journal’s executive editor.
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You will:
Set the weekend news agenda and execute our goals, working with bureaus to ensure we are fast and authoritative on the stories that matter.
Helm developing stories during the weekend, ensuring that we deliver on the weekend with well-timed, distinctive journalism that stands out.
Oversee the curation of our digital platforms at the weekend, selecting the best stories for our lineups on Saturday, Sunday and Monday morning, while taking a collaborative approach to commissioning to ensure we are meeting our readers’ needs.
You have:
Seven years of experience in a senior editing role and 12 years as a working journalist;
Proven ability to drive coverage across the newsroom;
Excellent line editing and headline-writing skills.
To apply, please submit your resume, a cover letter explaining how you would approach the job.
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Business Area:
Dow Jones - News - WSJ
Job Category:
Editorial/Journalism
Union Status:
Non-Union rolePay Range: $200,000 - $240,000We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate’s experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce..
