Deputy Editor, Style News

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a Deputy Editor to manage the daily journalism of our Style News desk, including handling fast-turn-around breaking stories, top-quality beat coverage, memorable features and sharp analysis pieces. Style News is a new desk that will blend deep reporting, intelligent wit and good taste to create compulsively readable spot stories, analysis and features on the subjects of style, entertainment, celebrity, society, lifestyle and the arts. Whether it’s Jeff Bezos’s disco-themed New Year’s Eve ensemble or the “book stylists” of White Lotus, stories from this desk will have a lively lens on culture, style and fashion — with a fast-paced, robustly reported execution. You will oversee the daily activities of a small team of reporters and help run the nuts-and-bolts of daily publishing at the center of Style News, and requires working closely with the Editor and other stakeholders to set priorities and ensure that our Style coverage is lively, fast, dominant and maximally engaging our audience. You will work with another editor to polish the reporting and set it up to reach the widest possible audience with the best possible headlines, social and alert language. You will push the desk to explore new formats. You will come with dozens and dozens of witty, stylish, brainy and irresistible story ideas.