Categories: Journo Jobs

WSJ seeks a reporter to cover social media culture

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a reporter to join Life & Arts to cover social-media and internet culture: the latest trends, personalities, influencers, memes and communities that exist on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and emerging social-media platforms.

The reporter will cover the ever-changing ways people are communicating and socializing within established and new social media, the social and political micro-communities that exist on various platforms, and the broader youth zeitgeist. The focus of this beat will be newsy features about lifestyle and culture rather than on technology.

At least five years of beat reporting experience is required. Please include a cover letter and at least five clips in your application.

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.