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The Wall Street Journal · 15 hours ago

Design Columnist

New York, NY

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$120K/yr - $150K/yr

4+ years exp

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a New York-based design columnist on its Weekend & WSJ. Magazine team to deliver charming, well-observed columns and coverage on interior, garden and home design. The role involves reporting, writing, and fact-checking columns about trends and personalities in the design space, while ensuring the voice and standards of the publication are met.

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Responsibilities

Report, write and fact-check an average one column per week about a trend, person, home or conversation in the design, garden, architecture or interior-market space

Burst with highly shareable, witty, ambitious story ideas with clearly understood news value and elegant execution

Bring a deeply seasoned knowledge of key power players and a good roster of sources and contacts to help garner exclusives, identify trends, develop features and work toward access-driven stories we own

Easily modulate between surprising, well-reported feature stories and whimsical, amusing essays or interviews. Embody the Weekend and WSJ. Magazine mission to simultaneously inform and entertain

Work collaboratively and egolessly with others—both with Weekend editors as well as with our style and culture teams of reporters

Uncover angles and ideas no one else is chasing and develop them into engaging reads. Amplify traditional profiles, trends or event stories with humanizing detail and great eye for shareable, well-crafted narrative that show potential for long-form features or as Weekend cover stories

Embrace audience data, learning or continuing to fuse metrics with great taste and imaginative ideas

Ensure the voice, tone and standards of The Wall Street Journal are consistently met; that stories are accurate, fair, objective and of impeccable quality. Scrupulously uphold newsroom policies and procedures around ethics and conduct

Qualification

Trend analysisExceptional writing skillsReporting skillsVisual thinkingAudience engagementCollaborative attitudeSense of humorAttention to detail

Required

Unputdownable clips and exceptional writing and reporting skills

4 to 8 years experience covering a relevant beat, including essays or columns, reported feature stories, and well-developed enterprise or longer-form features

A proven history of finding unexpected takes on the home and design world, as well as an eye for elevated cultural and visually sumptuous stories that appeal to a general audience

Great contacts and a dogged, indefatigable sense of how to make stories happen

A sense of humor, including a demonstrated ability to find clever, intelligent ways into stories that are being widely covered

A meticulous approach to getting facts and details exactly right, knowing how to avoid errors and bulletproof high-profile, consequential stories with a close attention to detail

A sharp sense of how to connect with digital audiences

Visual thinking and a vested interest in how your stories will look and present across platforms

A collaborative, team-player attitude, an upbeat outlook and an entrepreneurial spirit as we grow and evolve coverage needs