Music Reporter

Music Reporter

Requirements

• Unputdownable clips and exceptional writing and reporting skills.
• 4 to 6 years experience covering a relevant beat, including scoops and reported feature stories.
• A proven history of finding unexpected takes on fast-moving news events.
• An eye for music stories that appeal to a general audience.
• A sense of humor, including a proven history of finding clever, intelligent ways into stories that are being widely covered.
• A demonstrated meticulous attention to getting facts and details exactly right.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Report, write and fact-check an average of four stories each month about music.
• Burst with highly shareable, witty, adrenalized story ideas with real and clearly understood news value.
• Embody the Style News and WSJ. Magazine mission to simultaneously inform and entertain.
• Uncover stories no one else is chasing and develop them into juicy features and engaging reads.
• Develop or bring close relationships with music industry figures and sources to garner scoops, identify trends, and develop features and enterprise.
• Amplify traditional profiles of artists, fan trends or industry players with humanizing detail and great eye for shareable, well-crafted narrative that show potential for long-form magazine inclusion as features or 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.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.