Full-Time

WSJ seeks deputy Pro editor

The Wall Street Journal is looking for a news-savvy, entrepreneurial senior editor to join the newsroom team focused on content for professional audiences.

The Wall Street Journal’s Professional Products group is made up of a dozen products, each with its own team and content portfolio targeted at specific professional groups. The deputy will help oversee the coverage that is generated across the teams, pulling together deep analysis and insights that help professionals understand and navigate critical issues affecting their industries and their roles.

You should have business editing experience and also demonstrate an understanding and eagerness to delve into the various topics covered by our Professional teams, from corporate finance to cybersecurity to sustainability.

You must also have a sense for what differentiates Professional/specialized content and broader news, in order to ensure our professional teams are serving their readers with valuable and actionable content.

You will work with fellow Professional team members to help direct audience engagement and visuals. You will lead our efforts to build the team’s audience analytics and help focus our coverage.

You should be a strong editor who can deftly shape stories for professional audiences without resorting to jargon. You will help ensure that all Professional content meets the highest quality, adheres to WSJ standards and is publication-ready. This includes newsletter content, daily and feature stories and content produced by our professional teams at live events.

You must also be a strong communicator and good team player. You will work regularly with the Pro Products Editor and liaise with editors across the newsroom to coordinate coverage.

This position is based in New York and reports to the Professional Products Editor.

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.

Recent Posts

Globe and Mail hires Raman to cover retirement and financial planning

The (Toronto) Globe and Mail has hired Meera Raman to cover retirement and financial planning. "I’ll be…

12 hours ago

Politico hires Katzenberger to cover tech policy

Politico has hired Tyler Katzenberger to cover tech policy. He had been interning for Politico in California.…

12 hours ago

STAT’s Todd to take on reporting role

STAT News assignment editor Sarah Todd is taking on a new role reporting on the commercial determinants…

15 hours ago

The Logic hires Smith, to focus on US-Canada trade as a beat

The Logic deputy managing editor Charlie Gillis sent out the following on Tuesday: Donald Trump’s return…

16 hours ago

NBC News adds two correspondents

NBC News is adding two new correspondents. Camila Bernal will join in Los Angeles as…

16 hours ago

Reuters seeks an investigative reporter in London

Reuters is seeking an accomplished, tenacious and deeply experienced reporter to produce ambitious investigations, illuminating explanatory…

16 hours ago