Bureau Chief, Mansion

Dow Jones & Co.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Dow Jones & Co. seeks a dynamic Mansion Bureau Chief, Features, to lead Mansion—the luxury real estate section of The Wall Street Journal.

The role focuses on breaking major news, investigative reporting, and engaging features across digital and print formats for a sophisticated audience of homeowners, investors and professionals. You will manage reporters and columnists, coordinate with graphics, video and audience editors, and shape the section’s editorial agenda to expand Mansion’s reach

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years as an editor on real estate or similar topics, including editing fast-breaking news and enterprise features.
• Ability to identify legal issues and maintain high editorial standards across platforms.
• Strong reporting and storytelling instincts with a visual, audience-focused approach.

Responsibilities

• Assign and edit multiple Mansion stories weekly to cover market, investment, architecture and design trends.
• Manage and coach Mansion reporters and columnists, collaborating across Features and the newsroom.
• Generate ambitious, shareable story ideas with clear real estate hooks and strong execution.
• Develop sources across the industry to break news and produce in-depth features and exclusives.
• Ensure high-quality journalism on all platforms and maintain WSJ standards across formats.

Skills

Real estate editing

Editorial leadership

Story development

Mobile storytelling

News judgment

Job description

Dow Jones & Co.

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world's top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron's, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets.

Dow Jones is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at [e-mail]. Please put “Reasonable Accommodation” in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

NYC - 1211 Ave of the Americas

Full time

Job Description:

Mansion Bureau Chief, Features (in New York, NY)

The Wall Street Journal's Features team is seeking a dynamic, experienced bureau chief to run Mansion, our luxury real estate section. Through its digital coverage and weekly print section, this section serves a broad and sophisticated audience: wealthy homeowners and real‑estate professionals tracking the market and its biggest trends; aspirational readers who turn to it as a dream book; and anyone interested in social, cultural and economic forces shaping the world through the lens of real estate.

This is an opportunity to lead a high-profile team that is prized for its ability to break major news, uncover market-moving shifts, produce deeply reported stories with real authority, as well as smart, buzzy features that capture the culture around homeowning.

Working collaboratively with columnists and reporters across Features and with teams throughout the newsroom, the ideal candidate is a self-starting editor with deep experience in real estate and home coverage and a sharp instinct for conceiving distinctive and highly visual digital stories. This editor should know how to turn strong reporting and ideas into journalism that travels across platforms and reaches audiences in different ways—from vertical video and social carousels to newsletters and the WSJ app.

The bureau chief will work closely with graphics, video, audience and platform editors to determine the best ways to package, present and amplify Mansion journalism, helping each story reach the right audiences in the right formats.

A proven ability to find the stories where real estate intersects with investing, wealth, how people live and where they choose to live is essential.

The bureau chief will set the section's editorial agenda, identify the biggest stories and opportunities, develop ambitious reporting and push the team beyond the expected. The goal is to build on Mansion's position as an essential source for understanding the real‑estate market and the people, money, culture and forces shaping how and where we live—and to ensure that journalism reaches and engages audiences wherever they encounter The Journal.

You will:

• 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 The Journal can own, from original reporting and exclusive access to distinctive franchises and deeper examinations of the forces reshaping how and where people live.
• Easily modulate between editing surprising, engaging and well‑reported feature stories with fast, news‑driven deal reporting. Embody the Features mission to simultaneously inform and entertain our audience.
• 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 that can become distinctive, high‑impact Features stories.
• Embrace audience data, using metrics alongside strong editorial judgment, great taste and imaginative ideas to shape smarter real estate coverage.
• Ensure the top‑tier execution and ethical standards of the Wall Street Journal and WSJ. Magazine are consistently met: that work is of impeccable quality across all platforms, and that The Journal's codes of conduct and overall Standards & Ethics rules are scrupulously met.

You have:

• 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.
• Visual thinking and a vested interest in how 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.

You will report to the Deputy Coverage Chief, Features. This is a fulltime position based in our New York, NY office.

Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. EEO/Disabled/Vets.

Reasonable Accommodation

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application or participating in an interview due to a disability, email us at [e-mail]. Please put "Reasonable Accommodation" in the subject line and provide a brief description of the type of assistance you need. This inbox will not be monitored for application status updates.

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Business Area:

Dow Jones - News - WSJ

Job Category:

Editorial/Journalism

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Base Pay Range:

$140,000.00 - $180,000.00

We're committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate's experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.

For bonus‑eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.

For benefits‑eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.

About_Us

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world's top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron's, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award‑winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.

Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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