Reuters is seeking several Legal Reporters to hit the ground running and cover U.S. legal news in areas including intellectual property, M&A, antitrust and banking and finance.
About the Role
As our Legal Reporter, you will:
- Write about high-profile court filings, rulings and hearings on a daily basis and will also be expected to identify broader trends and bellwether cases as they develop.
- Have a deep understanding of the field, established sources and an ability to write quickly and with valuable insight for legal professionals.
- The Legal Reporter will use online legal research tools and must have the ability to track developments in specific cases; understand the significance of the developments; and report them quickly and accurately.
- The position entails collaborating with our data and video teams to develop initiative and multimedia stories.
About You
To be our Legal Reporter, you will likely have:
- An ambition for breaking news, a commitment to accuracy and a keen attention to detail.
- A minimum of five years of experience as a journalist is required.
This job provides flexibility to work in our Toronto office or from a remote location elsewhere in Canada.
To apply, go here.
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.