You will write everything from breaking news to longer term enterprise stories focused on the most important cases, judges, litigators, and courts in the state of New York. You will be the tip of the spear on our biggest stories on trials, appeals, and everything litigation. You will drive coverage on national trends and highlight key state and local developments.
What you will do:
- Report and write news articles and breaking news alerts, often on deadline.
- Pitch, develop and write analytical pieces and feature stories on complicated subjects like tax and legal developments, making them accessible to readers
- Demonstrate knowledge of federal and state legislative, regulatory, and judicial processes.
- Establish strategic relationships with sources, editors, news desk, etc. etc.
- Serve as a resource for other correspondents and Washington based reporters.
- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
You need to have:
- Bachelor’s degree with coursework in English or journalism preferred.
- 3-7 years’ experience in journalism, including daily reporting experience or demonstrated reporting proficiency and news judgment.
- Demonstrated knowledge of journalism principles and techniques.
- Knowledge of federal and state legislative, regulatory, and judicial processes.
Compensation Range:$73,221.00 – $106,170.00
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Chris RoushChris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.