Dow jones

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New York, United States

Full-time

Role Overview

The Bureau Chief will lead a high-profile team covering real estate, setting the section's editorial agenda, breaking major news, and producing deeply reported stories and smart features.

About Dow jones

The Wall Street Journal's Features team is seeking a dynamic, experienced bureau chief to run Mansion, our luxury real estate section.

Key Responsibilities

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Assign and edit multiple stories each week that explore the best of real estate and homeownership, from market and investment stories to architecture and design, delivering smart, engaging and useful reading for a broad audience.

Manage and coach dedicated reporters and columnists on the Mansion desk, while building strong partnerships across Features and the broader newsroom to bring the best reporters and ideas to real estate coverage.

Generate ambitious, highly shareable story ideas for the team that have clear news value, a strong real-estate hook and sharp, distinctive execution.

Bring deep experience covering real estate and a strong understanding of the property market, along with a well-developed network of sources across the industry to break news, uncover trends, develop ambitious features and identify story lines that T

Easily modulate between editing surprising, engaging and well-reported feature stories with fast, news-driven deal reporting.

Work collaboratively and egolessly with others, both with Features editors as well as with our style and culture teams of reporters.

Know how to amplify traditional profiles, trends and event stories with humanizing detail and a sharp eye for shareable, well-crafted narratives.

Embrace audience data, using metrics alongside strong editorial judgment, great taste and imaginative ideas to shape smarter real estate coverage.

Requirements & Eligibility

5 to 8+ years experience as an editor on real estate or similar topics, including editing fast-breaking news, reported feature stories, and well-developed enterprise or longer-form features.
Experience editing complex subject matter.
An ability to identify potential legal issues.
An ability to enhance storytelling for our mobile audience, with a sophisticated understanding of how to capture and sustain audience attention across platforms.
A proven history of finding unexpected takes on the real estate 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 push your team to avoid errors and bulletproof high-profile, visible stories with an attention to detail.

Required Skills & Tech

Editorial EditingReal Estate JournalismTeam ManagementDigital Content StrategyContent CurationNews Reporting

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Role Highlights

Posted Date

19 Oct 2026

Salary

$140,000.00 - $180,000.00

Experience

5-8+ years