Audience Strategist - London, United Kingdom - Dow Jones
Description
Job Description:
Audience Strategist in LONDON, UK
Job description:
The Wall Street Journal is seeking an audience strategist to help define what we cover and how we cover it, with a focus on international news.
Based in our London office, you will be working with a team of editors and journalists based in the U.S., Europe and Asia to ensure our journalism engages our subscribers and reaches a wide audience in the most compelling way.
The job has a broad scope and the pace of a digital newsroom.
The position will report into the Director of Content Strategy.
You will:
- Work closely with the editorial leadership team, including our senior editors overseas, to develop audience strategy with dual focus: keeping our subscribers engaged and reaching new audiences.
- Champion use of data and analytics in the newsroom, translating data into actionable insights, preparing statistical reports and working with editors to monitor, meet and exceed our key performance indicators.
- Lead training on digital best practices and how to use data to inform coverage decisions.
- Look beyond the daily news cycle to identify and address opportunities across departments including coverage, audiences, operations, product, marketing.
- Be an active participant in news meetings, helping shape stories to meet the needs of our audiences.
- Work closely with our social and SEO team to monitor topics of interest, and help editors plan coverage accordingly.
- Shape the format of our journalism to tell stories in the most impactful way whether through text, live journalism, visuals, video and podcasts or other approaches.
- Regularly share audience learnings with the broader newsroom.
You have:
- 7+ years digital newsroom experience including some combination of newsroom strategy, editing, production or digital project management.
- Strong analytical skills, including the ability to find insights from data; create an easytounderstand narrative from them; and deliver a plan to address the findings.
- Data skills and experience using tools for web analytics. Experience with SQL, Python or other dataanalysis languages is optional but an advantage.
- A strong understanding of and interest in the competitive landscape for digital news media.
- Track record of developing strong and trusting relationships, collaborating, and building consensus.
- Ability to communicate in writing and in person clearly, concisely and persuasively.
- Comfortable with taking the initiative to surface challenges and opportunities, and the drive to develop and act on solutions.
Business Area:
NEWS/WSJ
Job Category:
General Management
Union Status:
Non-Union role
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.
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