Corporate Coverage Chief

Dow Jones & Co.
Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy
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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, email us at talentresourceteam@dowjones.com. Please put “Reasonable Accommodation in the subject line.
NYC - 1211 Ave of the Americas
Full time
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Job Description:
The Wall Street Journal seeks an experienced journalist for one of the most important roles at the whole company, Corporate Coverage Chief.
The Corporate Editor is responsible for the Journal's business coverage and for the team of more than 90 reporters and editors that produces it. The Journal has been leading coverage of business for as long as the newspaper has existed, and you'll need both to carry on this tradition of excellence and to think creatively and innovatively about how we should do it afresh for a changing world and changing audiences in digital realms.
To succeed in this role, you'll need a thoroughgoing knowledge of the business world drawn from experience covering it, from startups to tech behemoths. You'll need the capacity to lead a large team through big news moments and the strategic wisdom to set it on a long-term course. You'll need ambition and drive and a commitment to daily excellence. This is a topic on which we must be the very best.
This is a coverage-chief position. Considerable editing and management experience is required.
You will:

• Set the long-term coverage agenda for the corporate team and oversee the daily news flow.
• Build, maintain and nurture a top-flight team of reporters and editors.
• Collaborate with other coverage chiefs and with colleagues throughout the organization to produce great and distinctive journalism.
• Seek new ways of doing our journalism digitally, and champion them in the newsroom.
• Represent the Journal publicly at events and conferences, and be a public face for our coverage beyond our doors.

You have:

• More than 10 years of experience managing reporters or editors.
• Deep knowledge of companies, the people that run them and the issues they care about.
• Demonstrated success at managing news coverage and managing longer-term work.
• The very highest standards of excellence, and a commitment to ambitious and distinctive journalism.

To apply, please provide a resume and cover letter.
Reasonable accommodation: Dow Jones, Making Careers Newsworthy - We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets. 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, email us at talentresourceteam@dowjones.com. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.
Business Area:
Dow Jones - News - WSJ
Job Category:
Editorial/Journalism
Union Status:
Non-Union role
Pay Range: $290,000 - $340,000
We 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..
Business Area:
Dow Jones - News - WSJ

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