WSJ seeks a luxury real estate reporter

The Wall Street Journal is looking for a reporter to join Mansion, our luxury real estate section.

You will be expected to break news, report on the economics of luxury real estate and write memorable feature stories to strengthen our efforts to dominate the high-end real estate market.

You will:

Report, write and fact check an average of two to three stories a month, exploring broader luxury real estate trends.
Develop close relationships with real estate agents, brokers, developers and other industry figures to garner scoops.
Identify broader economic and sociological trends within the high-end real estate market.
Ensure the voice, tone and standards of the Wall Street Journal are consistently accurate and fair, objective and of high quality.

You have:

Experience writing about complex subject matter and have a strong attention to detail.
Ease with working with different types of media, e.g., text, graphics, captions.
3 to 5 years of experience covering a newsy beat with scoops and deeply reported feature stories.

You will report to Heather Halberstadt, the WSJ’s Mansion editor. While you will likely start the job working remotely, you will eventually be based in our New York office.

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.