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WSJ seeks website editor in London

The Wall Street Journal is looking for a talented digital editor to manage WSJ.com editions during the EMEA business day.

The editor will focus on presenting the top stories of the day to drive maximum reader engagement through appropriate positioning, layout and optimal deployment of inline links, SEO-friendly headlines and summaries, visuals, alerts and other tools.

For this senior role, based in our new London newsroom, we’re seeking someone with finely-tuned news judgment, a strong eye for detail and the ability to work at speed in a real-time news environment.

The editor will be expected to make full use of reader engagement measures to help inform digital presentation going forward. The job holder will be a key advocate of digital strategy in the newsroom, working closely with colleagues locally, in European bureaus, and with our regional centers in New York and Hong Kong.

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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