Loop21.com is looking for an Assignment Editor to manage, expand, and broaden its news gathering operations. As an Assignment Editor, you will manage a team of reporters, research news events, maintain frequent contact with news sources, prioritize news stories, assign stories, and write/edit news stories in a fast-paced internet environment.

We’re looking for a hands-on manager who is comfortable multitasking, leads by example, and inspires others to maximum effort. You must be well organized and deft at time management and maintaining timely news story production. A stickler for details, you refuse to sacrifice quality for the sake of expediency.

This position offers exceptional career growth opportunities and a national platform to showcase your talents.

Job Description

● Manage and supervise a network for news reporters
● Identifies news trends using internet, social media, and on-the-ground news reports
● Maintains contacts with key news sources
● Stays on top of news trends and prioritizes story assignments
● Assign stories and manage deadlines
● Edit news stories to ensure consistency in style and voice
● Write engaging, tight headlines that address SEO requirements
● Post stories, write headlines, and assist with image selection
● Evaluate team performance based on web metrics

We currently have several opportunities for reporters to join our NYC editorial team!

On a typical day reporters at Law360 will file four stories. These stories cover a wide array of practice areas, including employment law, environmental law, intellectual property law and securities law; and most recently, mergers & acquisitions, private equity, real estate, project finance, and capital markets; in industries such as energy, financial services, health-care, media and technology.

Required experience includes;
- BA/BS in Journalism;
- Two years of paid, full-time reporting experience or relevant graduate degree;
- Demonstrated reporting, writing and organizational skills;
- And an interest in business and legal issues.

Preferred experience includes;
- Graduate degree;
- Experience in news reporting (AP Style), covering legal, regulatory affairs, or business news;
- Or working with daily deadlines.

Hours for this position are 10:30a to 6:30p (regular shift).

Law360 offers extensive training on legal topics. Business or legal reporting experience is not required. However, professional reporting experience and strong writing and analytical skills are required to succeed in this job. Please note; qualified candidates will be asked to complete writing and reporting tests electronically.

Position: full-time reporter
Requirements: social media savvy; knowledgeable of the health sector; experienced producing engaging content for online audience; speed, accuracy and understanding of breaking news; self starter; able to thrive in fast-paced environment.

The Markets Media Financial Writer position will entail covering the buy side (institutional asset managers primarily) or sell side (broker-dealers and exchanges primarily).

We're not about breaking news, scoops, or rewriting press releases. We are about cultivating relationships with sources, thoroughly understanding what they do and what's going on in the market, and being able to write about it with clarity, depth and authority.

We seek an exceptional writer and social media guru to write and manage L2’s Digital Digest blog and Twitter feed. http://www.l2thinktank.com/blog/ https://twitter.com/#!/L2_ThinkTank

Responsibilities include:
Write 5 original blog posts per week on topics including Mobile, Social Media, Fashion, Retail, Beauty, Emerging Luxury Markets with an emphasis on data and quantitative analysis
Identify and blog the most compelling must-read articles on topics including Luxury, Fashion, Beauty, Digital Marketing, Technology Innovation.
Build community and engagement via Twitter by tweeting 10-15 times daily about luxury-related articles, thought-provoking questions and insightful data.

Qualifications:
Exceptional writer adept at leveraging the power of social media and digital marketing
Passion for business and style of fashion
Ability to analyze and synthesize primary and secondary quantitative and qualitative research
Fast learner, able to work effectively with minimal oversight
Available part-time 20 hours per week in NYC

If interested, email Johanna@l2thinktank.com

Are you fast and decisive? Do you learn quickly and have an entrepreneurial bent? This job could change your life!

You will work on a lot of different things. But this is a short list:

- Write and edit (this is what you will spend the bulk of your time doing)
- Select photos and videos from live tv or the internet with the potential for viral appeal
- Curate slide shows

Some important skills:

- WordPress (or other similar CMS exposure)
- Photoshop
- video editing software

Spanfeller Media Group's site - The Daily Meal - has an exciting career opportunity for an editor/writer to cover all beverage-related content. You will pitch story ideas, write on what's trending in beer/wine/spirits/other and edit.

The New York bureau of the Tokyo Shimbun, Japan’s largest regional daily newspaper, is seeking a full-time staff reporter/researcher to assist Japanese correspondents.

The ideal candidate would be an aspiring reporter with sharp journalistic instincts and strong research skills. Responsibilities include covering top stories in international affairs, the United Nations, the financial market and U.S. domestic issues. You will be required to arrange/transcribe interviews and handle logistics for feature stories. This is a reporting position with no writing or byline opportunities.

The job will involve, though not be limited to:

- monitoring breaking news through online, print and broadcast mediums

- researching news in the Western Hemisphere with a focus on social, economic, political and foreign affairs

- attending news briefings

- conducting man-on-the-street interviews

- interviewing/developing relationships with key experts and sources

QUALIFICATIONS:

We are looking for someone resourceful and flexible and able to handle multiple tasks on deadline. Must have a Bachelor’s Degree (liberal arts preferred) and native English fluency. Japanese language skills are required for this position. A background in economics and/or business is also beneficial.

COMPENSATION:

We offer a competitive salary and benefits, including health and dental insurance, paid overtime and transportation/cell phone reimbursement. There will also be occasional travel assignments so a valid passport and driver’s license is also required.

33 Universal is hiring writers/reporters to write on various topics for our fast-paced, New York office. We are looking to hire web-savvy enthusiastic reporters who are willing to research, write and meet daily deadlines and goals.

Candidates must be timely when delivering news stories, write compelling articles, drive traffic, and preferable have experience writing for online media.

Requirements:

-Bachelors degree in Journalism or related
-Experience writing for online multimedia
-Proficient with Microsoft Office, the Internet,
-Understands and is proficient with social networking (Facebook and Twitter)
-Deadline and detail oriented (must understand the standards of real-time news and be able to work under pressure when necessary)

This is a one-time gig. We are looking for a talented writer who can attend a fundraiser, take about 40 pictures with captions and write about a 500-word summary of the event and the organizaiton. We work under deadline and we're looking for someone who is creative and knows AP Style.