Books Reporter

The Wall Street Journal is seeking a reporter on its Features & _WSJ. Magazine_ team to write consumer-facing book and literary-world features, report lively and prescient trend stories, and write delectable, highly shareable feature stories with a focus on authors, books and readership for a general consumer audience.



Modern media is rapidly transforming publishing, including every aspect of how readers engage with books and their authors. The ideal candidate is a high-metabolism feature reporter with both a zeal for chasing distinctive, character-driven angles on the biggest literary and book-world industry stories of the day, as well as an eye for the big personalities and cultural forces shaping the medium, from writers to sellers to #BookTok crusaders.



The Journal’s Features teams blend deep reporting, sharp wit and good taste to create compulsively readable quick-turn stories, timely analysis pieces and enterprise features on the subjects of ...