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WSJ seeks a weekend news editor

The Wall Street Journal is looking for an autonomous senior editor to ensure our weekend news offering is best-in-class. The weekend news editor will work with editors and reporters across the newsroom to deliver fast, authoritative breaking news while also helming developing stories to ensure we deliver throughout the weekend for our readers.

This is one of the most self-starting editing roles in the newsroom. You will be responsible for setting the news agenda for Saturday, Sunday and Monday morning. You will be required to manage the curation of our digital platforms throughout the weekend, to commission and edit breaking news stories, and to select the stories for some of our most important daily lineups. You will be responsible for selecting or commissioning our Monday morning lead, an agenda-setting piece of journalism that will start the week. You will be the senior editor in charge at the weekend, with responsibility for signing off the Monday print edition of the Journal.

You will be a seasoned line editor and an all-rounder with the confidence to work on stories from all coverage areas. You will be required to oversee live coverage of political and world events over the weekend.

We are looking for an accomplished journalist with substantial experience editing a wide range of stories, who is comfortable working on everything from a crunchy economic analysis or a breaking corporate story to a world dispatch or a political sketch. A key quality will be the confidence to run the news solo on the weekends while also knowing when to call on senior editors and others in the newsroom for support.

You will work a four-day week, Thursday through Sunday.

You will be based in New York and report to David Crow, the Journal’s executive editor.

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You will:

  • Set the weekend news agenda and execute our goals, working with bureaus to ensure we are fast and authoritative on the stories that matter.
  • Helm developing stories during the weekend, ensuring that we deliver on the weekend with well-timed, distinctive journalism that stands out.
  • Oversee the curation of our digital platforms at the weekend, selecting the best stories for our lineups on Saturday, Sunday and Monday morning, while taking a collaborative approach to commissioning to ensure we are meeting our readers’ needs.

You have:

  • Seven years of experience in a senior editing role and 12 years as a working journalist;
  • Proven ability to drive coverage across the newsroom;
  • Excellent line editing and headline-writing skills.

To apply, please submit your resume, a cover letter explaining how you would approach the job and examples of your work by November 12th.

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.

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