Categories: Journo Jobs

Mansion seeks a digital editor

The Mansion section is seeking a digital editor to showcase multimillion-dollar homes and tell the stories behind them. Opportunities abound for creative digital interactives — sortable spreadsheets, before-and-after photo overlays, video enhancements and curated slideshows are just a few.

Duties include:

Schedule, package and publish Mansion articles for online platforms
Produce a semi-weekly newsletter in conjunction with The Wall Street Journal’s real-estate bureau
Oversee the popular House of the Day slideshow and weekly poll
Promote Mansion content on social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Flipboard and Instagram.

Candidates should have experience writing engaging web headlines and social language. The ability to promptly publish scoops on celebrity home sales and listings is essential. An interest in next-generation interactive tools and new methods of storytelling is a plus.

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.