WSJ seeks a corporate coverage chief

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.

To apply, go here.