Digital Publishing Editor, News & Platforms

Dow Jones; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Reasonable Accommodation

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

The Wall Street Journal is seeking an experienced Digital Production Editor to join our Digital Production Team in New York. This role blends rigorous copy editing with strategic programming across WSJ's digital platforms, supporting news editors and shaping how our journalism reaches readers on phone and web.

You will move between functions, write SEO-friendly headlines, manage homepage and feed curation, and collaborate with reporters and audience teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in digital news editing and platform curation.
• Proven ability to work under deadline with strong news judgment.
• Expertise with digital publishing tools and newsroom workflows.
• Deep knowledge of SEO best practices and audience data in real time.
• Experience curating digital homepages and feeds across platforms.
• Fluent editing across text, graphics, captions, and social.

Responsibilities

• Edit copy to the highest standards of grammar, style, accuracy and clarity, quickly, on deadline, and without a second pass.
• Independently make packaging and presentation decisions across breaking news, features and enterprise journalism with strong, confident news judgment.
• Write headlines optimized for SEO and digital engagement, captions, sells and push alerts that are sharp, on-brand and audience-aware.
• Execute daily programming decisions across WSJ platforms, including app and desktop homepages, push notifications and email alerts, using audience data to inform curation in real time.
• Apply a sophisticated knowledge of SEO principles across all relevant fields, tags and headline structures.
• Craft display text for off-platform distribution across channels including Google, social and aggregators.
• Apply metadata, in-house coding and all technical publishing requirements correctly and consistently without reference.
• Troubleshoot digital publishing issues as they arise, escalating when appropriate and resolving when possible.
• Liaise with the London production hub to ensure seamless publishing continuity across time zones.
• Collaborate directly with reporters, coverage editors, and audience, strategy and social teams to execute audience-first publishing.
• Uphold Dow Jones standards and ethics in every editorial decision.

Skills

Digital production

News editing

SEO knowledge

Audience data platforms

Platform curation

Independent work

Collaboration

Tools

Metadata systems

Newsroom workflows

Job description

The Wall Street Journal is seeking an experienced Digital Production Editor to join our Digital Production Team in New York. This role blends rigorous copy editing with strategic programming across WSJ's digital platforms, supporting news editors and shaping how our journalism reaches readers on phone and web.

You will move between functions, write SEO-friendly headlines, manage homepage and feed curation, and collaborate with reporters and audience teams.