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Law360.com seeks assistant managing editor

The assistant managing editor is an integral part of Law360’s busy newsroom.

The AME is responsible for day-to-day oversight of the newsroom with the goal of refining coverage. This position manages a team of reporters covering Product Liability, Privacy, Consumer Protection, Insurance and Food & Beverage. The ideal candidate will possess legal industry experience covering one or more of those areas. The AME works under the Managing Editor.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

· Assign news stories

· Assign features

· Develop story ideas

· Conduct competitive analysis for assigned newsletters

· Complete structural edits for articles

· Review newsletter content

· Arrange stories in newsletters

· Work with reporters to improve pitching, writing, developing stories

· Provide continuous feedback to reporters to ensure staff development

· Notify Managing Editor of recurring problems in reporting and writing; provide feedback on overall reporter performance

· Train and mentor new hires

· Improve editorial routines; update editorial wiki as necessary

· Analyze traffic and reader feedback

· Participate in editorial advisory board meetings

· Step in for Managing Editor to fulfill her duties as necessary

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris 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.

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