WSJ seeks banking editor

The Wall Street Journal seeks a sophisticated, multi-talented journalist to lead our team covering ​ ​ banks and Wall Street. This is the job at the very core of the Journal’s readership and mission, responsible for reporting on, investigating, and explaining the banking scene to our audience of two million.

This is a demanding position with high rewards. It requires comfort and poise managing a team of about 10 reporters. It requires sophisticated knowledge of banks and how the banking system at large works. The candidate should also be comfortable in the different disciplines of modern journalism: From quick, interpretative pieces to deeply reported investigations.

Nearly a decade from the financial crisis, banks remain at the center of the national consciousness and are attracting ire from all of the presidential candidates. Their perception problems are nonetheless secondary to their business challenges. They are struggling to make money and investors don’t trust their outlook. At the same time, they remain central to the lives of every American and every American business.

It’s up to the new banking editor to help our reporters dig deep enough to show an industry in transition, if not in an outright identity crisis. There is wide expectation that the huge banks of today will be broken up, a turnabout from the agglomerations of the last two decades.

The rewards of this job are indeed high: A leading role in a core story to WSJ readers and the economy at large; responsibility for the work and development of an excellent reporting team; and a chance to grow and learn at the best journalistic operation in the world.

Contact financial editor Dennis Berman at dennis.berman@wsj.com. Be prepared with a hard-paper resume and clips.