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Dow Jones seeks senior editor for luxury real estate

Dow Jones seeks an experienced editor with an interest in luxury real estate.

This editor will enhance and expand sections of a website focused on global luxury markets. The editor will curate news coverage to engage a high-end home-buying audience by aggregating, pitching and assigning articles and multimedia features.

There will be a focus on sourcing new and original data about high-end homes to provide insight on everything from the hottest neighborhoods to the effect of currency fluctuations. There will be some writing involved in this position.

The successful candidate must have strong attention to detail, a strict commitment to integrity and accuracy in their work and good organizational, research and communication skills.

Responsibilities

  • Develop new editorial content for a website featuring listings and news
  • Assign and edit articles
  • Collaborate with a small editorial team to conceive ideas for new data projects, interactive charts and other multimedia features
  • Handle requests for photo and video to accompany original stories
  • Write articles about global luxury real estate

Requirements

  • 5-7 years experience in journalism
  • Sharp editorial judgment and solid writing skills; comfort with reporting on data
  • Ability to work under daily deadlines
  • Ability to program and optimize content (SEO)
  • Basic visuals editing/processing skills (comfort with web-based graphics tools, CMS, Photoshop)
  • International reporting experience a plus, as well as a second language

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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