Indiana Lawyer seeks a senior reporter

Indiana Lawyer, Indiana’s leading print and online legal news publication, seeks an experienced multimedia journalist to become its next senior reporter.

Are you a journalist with multimedia experience? Do you love the cops and courts beat? Did you toy with the idea of law school but decided on journalism? If so, this is the job for you.

As the Indiana Lawyer senior reporter, you’ll be part of a fast-paced newsroom that focuses both on digital daily news coverage and longer-form print coverage. You’ll be an integral part of our biweekly print publication, as well as Indiana Lawyer Daily, our e-newsletter distributed every afternoon. We’re a news publication with a focus on the legal industry, so you’ll definitely write about the court system. But you’ll also have the chance to dig into other issues, such as legal education, government/politics, the opioid crisis, general breaking news, features articles, even sports — and more. Sometimes stories will be assigned to you, and other times you’ll find them on your own.

This is a multimedia role, meaning the senior reporter will have a hand in our print and online coverage as well as our social media/website work and the Indiana Lawyer Podcast. This reporter will juggle multiple deadlines, so we’re looking for someone who’s organized and a go-getter.

Here’s what you’ll bring to our team:

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism.
• Newsroom experience.
• A strong command of AP style.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Experience with audio production.
• Experience with website management.
• Experience with social media.
• A basic understanding of the court system and a willingness to learn that system on an in-depth level.
• Critical thinking skills that enable you to read and understand court documents.
• Excellent communication skills, both internally and externally.
• Team mentality.
• Efficiency, with a strong respect for deadlines.
• Strong relationship-building skills.

Here’s what we’ll give you:

• Office space in the heart of downtown Indianapolis.
• Benefits including medical, dental, vision, life insurance and retirement benefits.
• Annual paid time off awards and paid holidays.
• Access to Indiana’s leadership through interviews with court officials, lawmakers, lawyers, politicians and others with influence over how our state runs.
• A nuanced understanding of Indiana’s court system that brings the judiciary to life in new and interesting ways.
• Unique experience in court reporting not offered at other publications.
• Opportunities to write and be published daily.
• Multimedia reporting opportunities.
• Collaborative work environment.

If this sounds like you, please submit a resume, cover letter and three examples of your work, including one example of non-print journalism (audio and/or video) to Indiana Lawyer Editor Olivia Covington at ocovington@ibj.com, and to Indiana Lawyer Managing Editor Jordan Morey at jmorey@ibj.com. The deadline to submit resumes is 5 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 20. Questions can be directed to Olivia and Jordan.