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The Wall Street Journal · 1 day ago

DC Style Reporter

Washington, DC

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$120K/yr - $150K/yr

4+ years exp

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a Weekend Style & Culture Reporter based in Washington, D.C. to deliver insightful social coverage of the city's power classes, focusing on cultural trends and events. The role involves generating engaging features and stories that connect with a national audience while upholding the journalistic standards of The Wall Street Journal.

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Responsibilities

Report, write and fact-check an average of three stories each month about the cultural or social side of political Washington

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

Bring a well-developed roster of sources and knowledge of key figures and contacts to help garner scoops, identify trends, develop features and work toward access-driven profiles and sitdowns

Easily modulate between tough, surprising, detail-driven enterprise stories as well as whimsical, frisky features that mine for joy and humor. Embody the Weekend and WSJ. Magazine mission to simultaneously inform and entertain

Work collaboratively and egolessly with others—with fellow senior feature storytellers, with our enterprise and politics teams, and with our D.C. bureau and its leadership

Help uncover distinctive features no one else is chasing and develop them into juicy, engaging reads. Amplify traditional profiles, trends or event stories with humanizing detail and great eye for shareable, well-crafted narrative that show potential for 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

Feature storytellingExceptional writing skillsReporting skillsSource developmentAudience engagementAttention to detailVisual thinkingEntrepreneurial spiritCollaborative attitudeSense of humor

Required

Unputdownable clips and exceptional writing and reporting skills

4 to 9 years experience covering a relevant beat, including news, reported feature stories, and well-developed enterprise or longer-form feature storytelling

A proven history of finding unexpected takes on fast-moving news events, as well as an eye for cultural and zeitgeist-y stories that appeal to a general audience

Great sources 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