Law360 is looking for a senior reporter to cover mergers & acquisitions and private equity. This reporter will be responsible for staying on top of day-to-day transactions as well as generating regular analysis and feature pieces that will be of interest to our audience of high-level corporate lawyers. The reporter will be expected to build sources, ask questions, explore interesting angles and dig up good scoops.

Requirements:
- Two plus years of paid, full time reporting experience or relevant graduate degrees
- Demonstrated reporting, writing and organizational skills
- Exceptional news judgment
- Exceptional communication skills
- Experience covering M&A transactions and/or private equity deals
- Must be able to build sources and regularly enterprise stories

Preferences:
- Graduate degree in journalism
- Experience in covering legal or regulatory affairs
- Experience in covering business news

Law360 offers extensive training on legal topics. Familiarity with the law is a plus but is not required. Must possess strong writing and reporting skills as well as experience covering corporate deals. Please note; qualified candidates will be asked to complete writing and reporting tests electronically.

Law360 offers a casual and flexible work environment, comprehensive benefits (including; medical, dental, generous paid time off, 401(k), tuition reimbursement, and a pre-tax commuter program), and competitive salary with bonus eligibility.

Law360, published by Portfolio Media, Inc. is an online daily newswire that covers breaking legal news for a sophisticated audience of lawyers at firms, corporations and government agencies.

Portfolio Media, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The Desk Assistant (DA) position is part of a six-month entry-level program aimed at providing practical experience in a broadcast news setting. The DAs are exposed to all aspects involved in producing a nightly television news program. This position is divided into rotations among the different units that compose the NewsHour: research, newsroom, tape library, reporting, and production. Over the course of the program, each of the 8 Desk Assistants hired will work in 3 of the 6 different rotations for a period of two months each. They also act as support staff for Senior Producers, Associate Producers, Reporters and Production Assistants, by answering phones, sorting mail, distributing paper and other administrative tasks. Finally, Desk Assistants will attend a series of breakfasts with various members of our organization including correspondents, producers and reporters.

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We're looking for an off-camera reporter to collect man-on-the-street interviews for a documentary-style web series covering philosophical/existential/spiritual issues facing people today. Representative topics are "Can one person make a difference in the world," "How can I use adversity as a stepping stone to growth?" and "How can I handle grief and loss in a positive way." The series is designed to be thought-provoking, positive and inspirational.

SUMMARY
Jspace.com is seeking a full-time reporter to write news, feature, and gossip stories in New York about issues of Jewish interest and concern. The ideal candidate will have some journalistic experience (college experience acceptable); familiarity with global Jewish issues; the skills to master multiple tones and styles; the initiative to pitch stories; excellent reporting and writing abilities; and the ability to work quickly and meet deadlines. This is an entry-level position based in NYC.

Despite that rather dry description, Jspace is a fun, young office that encourages offbeat, unusual ideas and supports independent initiative. Passionate about Klezmer music, local Israeli politics or obscure rabbinical theology? We love it. Prefer to seek out and interview the weirdest Jewish entrepreneurs? Even better! Whatever corner of the Jewish world interests you, interests us, and interests our readers.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES
• Local and global Jewish reporting
• Writing 9-12 articles per day in addition to working on longer-term projects
• Identifying and cultivating relationships with sources
• Identifying, pitching and developing timely, engaging and unusual stories
• Writing news, feature and gossip stories
• Covering breaking news stories
• Other duties as needed

QUALIFICATIONS
• Familiarity with global Jewish issues
• Excellent reporting and writing skills
• Ability to work efficiently, quickly and on deadline
• Ability to easily switch between objective and sarcastic writing tones
• Attention to detail and the ability to self-edit articles
• An ability to find unusual stories that aren’t being covered by more conventional sources

EXPERIENCE
• 1.5+ years journalistic experience
• Bachelor’s degree required

COMPENSATION
This is a full-time, salaried, entry-level position with health benefits and vacation, personal and sick days.

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Open City: Mapping Urban Asian America, a new online magazine on Asian American news and culture in New York, is hiring creative nonfiction fellows to produce content on the vibrant immigrant communities of Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. The new magazine will offer smart takes on Asian American (particularly immigrant) culture as it's lived in New York right now. Imagine stories on: the proliferation of x-rated video stories in Sunset Park, migratory patterns of Little Pakistani residents, karaoke bar culture, gentrification in Chinatown, or how Korean taco trucks define ethnic borders and space. Applications are due on March 2, 2012.

What is Open City?
Open City started off as an anti-gentrification blogging initiative aimed to expose the stories of voiceless immigrants in New York City. We're re-launching it this spring with that same goal in mind—and then some. The new magazine—edited by Kai Ma, New America Media award-winner and former editor-in-chief of KoreAm magazine—will offer smart takes on Asian American (particularly immigrant) culture as it's lived in New York right now.

Imagine stories on: the proliferation of x-rated video stories in Sunset Park, migratory patterns of Little Pakistani residents, karaoke bar culture, gentrification in Chinatown, or how Korean taco trucks define ethnic borders and space.

About the Open City Fellowship
Open City seeks to foster emerging writers and develop their exposure and brand as professional writers. Perhaps you have a personal interest in one of these neighborhoods, and you want to help shape its coverage—while also developing a journalistic beat or area of expertise in gentrification, immigration or urbanism. Or you’re a writer that’s published a handful of times, and need a kick in the pants to get your career where you want it to be. Or you’re just hungry for creating stories that you and your friends actually care about. Then this fellowship is for you.

Each fellow will focus on ONE of the following neighborhoods: 1) Manhattan’s Chinatown/Lower East Side, 2) Flushing, Queens, 3) Sunset Park, Brooklyn, 4) Jackson Heights, Queens, and 5) Richmond Hill, Queens. The neighborhood, and the issues and people therein, will become your beat. The news, stories and information you produce are compelling conversation starters about issues that matter to you, the residents and community members you’ll be working closely with. It’s your opportunity to cover a community, and to do so creatively.

And that’s where “creative nonfiction” comes in. Open City is an outlet for original stories with creative flair. This fellowship allows emerging writers to hone their storytelling and “new journalism” skills by placing an emphasis on creative nonfiction—the literary child of muckraking and poetry. Either you need a gateway into this celebrated genre or you’re a creative writer-meets-citizen journalist. If so, we want to hear from you.

Each fellow will report directly to the Open City editor.

Fellows will now receive a stipend of $5,000, an artist retreat at Blue Mountain Center in the Adirondacks, and career lunches with Rebecca Solnit, Wyatt Mason, Jennifer 8. Lee & others. This is a yearlong fellowship that starts April 2, 2012.

Remapping Debate, a small, vibrant, not-for-profit online news journal with stable funding, is looking for an experienced journalist who is eager to spend all day, every day, doing transformative reporting.

Requirements:

Minimum of five years of full-time experience as a journalist. The successful candidate will be someone who does serious, high quality work. He or she will be highly analytical, write with clarity and precision, and produce stories that are deeply probing without being wonky.

He or she must recognize that thorough and extensive interviewing is integral to most deeply-reported stories, that context is important, and that tough follow-up questions are essential. The right candidate will have intense curiosity about how domestic public policy reflects and is shaped by the questions that tend not to be asked by the press.

In short, we are looking for someone who can imagine the importance of making visible that which is often invisible.

Note on location: You can work out of our New York office, or be a bureau unto yourself if you need to remain in your current location.

Salary and benefits:

Competitive and commensurate with experience in producing the kind of stories we're interested in having reported. In other words, if you've got the talent and desire to help fulfill Remapping Debate's vision, don't think we won't pay you an appropriate salary.

We also pay 100 percent of health insurance premiums and provide unusually generous paid annual vacation time.

Dow Jones is seeking a specialist reporter/analyst to cover the dynamics of the foreign-exchange market and present them in sharp, pithy prose. The position includes writing about the major pairs and other Asian currencies, FX derivatives markets, and the FX impact of economic and policy developments.

We are looking for someone with a keen interest in financial news and the ability to comment quickly on developments. The ideal candidate will have at least 3-5 years of relevant experience in financial journalism or extensive industry experience, and a strong network of sources. Exposure to financial news will be a definite advantage.

Chief Editor for GothamGazette.com, an online media-based public policy journal that is published by Citizens Union Foundation (CUF), a citywide good government nonprofit organization. The site reports on and writes original articles about New York City and New York State government issues. The publication is internationally recognized for its originality and in-depth reporting. The new Executive Editor will be expected to provide strategic leadership and expertise in maximizing the presence and defined niche of an online media publication.

Founded in 1999, GothamGazette.com set the standard for innovative and incisive online local news reporting being the first publication to aggregate each morning online stories from other news media. Still committed to covering city and state government in an unbiased and balanced way, GothamGazette.com in the future will strengthen its focus of examining government policies and actions and report more deeply on key issues, taking an enterprise-story approach. Consistent with Citizens Union’s watchdog function and nonpartisan style, GothamGazette.com will illuminate areas of government and public policy otherwise ignored or underreported by the mainstream press and provide strongly well-researched, balanced, long-form articles. It will keep its readers up to date with daily coverage of important government matters and policy debates through its WordPress powered blog – The Wonkster. The Executive Editor reports to the publisher who also serves as CUF’s executive director.
The Executive Editor will:
• Provide new strategic leadership and expertise in maximizing the presence and defined niche of an online media publication taking advantage of new social media platforms to publish and promote.
• Work collaboratively with the State Government Editor in publishing stories and articles.
• Work collaboratively with GG’s Technical Manager to manage the site and management of its many databases and platforms.
• Cover City Hall and report on regular Stated Meetings of the City Council at which legislation is passed.
• Supervise the work and writings of ten freelance journalists who cover specific topic areas.
• Write and publish our weekly Searchlight on City Hall newsletter; oversee publication of other topic-specific newsletters.
• Come up with story ideas and write and assign policy feature articles based on issues at City Hall and the State Capitol; Edit articles from journalists and commentaries by public official.
• Put together our daily Eye Opener newsletter at least one day a week.
• Ensure our City Laws database is maintained; write blog posts; and supervise interns.
Qualifications/
Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism or related field.
• Five years professional journalism experience, preferably with some editing experience.
• Strong writing skills, particularly an ability to make sometimes complicated material clear and interesting.
• Commitment to accuracy and a balanced, nonpartisan approach in reporting.
• Interest in the public policy, advocacy and the civic life of New York.
• A sense of humor and ability to work with others in a pressured environment.
• Experience in web-based journalism and use of effective use of social media platforms, along with rudimentary knowledge of HTML.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks at once on tight deadlines.

Compensation:

Salary is competitive for a nonprofit organization whose budget is $1 million. Benefits include fully paid health including flexible spending plan, two weeks paid vacation to start, retirement savings program, and life and long-term disability insurance.

Chief Editor for GothamGazette.com, an online media-based public policy journal that is published by Citizens Union Foundation (CUF), a citywide good government nonprofit organization. The site reports on and writes original articles about New York City and New York State government issues. The publication is internationally recognized for its originality and in-depth reporting. The new Executive Editor will be expected to provide strategic leadership and expertise in maximizing the presence and defined niche of an online media publication.

Founded in 1999, GothamGazette.com set the standard for innovative and incisive online local news reporting being the first publication to aggregate each morning online stories from other news media. Still committed to covering city and state government in an unbiased and balanced way, GothamGazette.com in the future will strengthen its focus of examining government policies and actions and report more deeply on key issues, taking an enterprise-story approach. Consistent with Citizens Union’s watchdog function and nonpartisan style, GothamGazette.com will illuminate areas of government and public policy otherwise ignored or underreported by the mainstream press and provide strongly well-researched, balanced, long-form articles. It will keep its readers up to date with daily coverage of important government matters and policy debates through its WordPress powered blog – The Wonkster. The Executive Editor reports to the publisher who also serves as CUF’s executive director.

The Executive Editor will:
• Provide new strategic leadership and expertise in maximizing the presence and defined niche of an online media publication taking advantage of new social media platforms to publish and promote.
• Work collaboratively with the State Government Editor in publishing stories and articles.
• Work collaboratively with GG’s Technical Manager to manage the site and management of its many databases and platforms.
• Cover City Hall and report on regular Stated Meetings of the City Council at which legislation is passed.
• Supervise the work and writings of ten freelance journalists who cover specific topic areas.
• Write and publish our weekly Searchlight on City Hall newsletter; oversee publication of other topic-specific newsletters.
• Come up with story ideas and write and assign policy feature articles based on issues at City Hall and the State Capitol; Edit articles from journalists and commentaries by public official.
• Put together our daily Eye Opener newsletter at least one day a week.
• Ensure our City Laws database is maintained; write blog posts; and supervise interns.

Interrupt Media, an online marketing and media company is in search of someone who can write and manage a blog for one of our clients. The client is building and energy management software platform online They are looking for us to provide them with blog content on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Each day has a specific theme to it:

Mondays - How-To's
Wednesdays - Technology updates/observations
Fridays - Opinion piece about something that has happened in the news that week

Each post needs to be 200-400 words in length, have an energy management related connection and include links to relevant websites or pages within the current website. Here are the topics that you can choose from.

Standards & Ratings
Energy Star
IPMVP
ISO 50001
LEED

Energy Conservation & Energy Auditing
Baselines
Behavior
Building Envelope
Data Centers
HVAC
Lighting
Recommissioning
Industrial Processes
Retrofit Design

Energy Procurement
Strategies
Trends

Incentive Programs
Local, State, and Federal programs

Knowledge of the energy sector is a must as well as previous writing experience. In addition to a cover letter, you will need to provide a calendar of topics for the first 9 blog posts (3 weeks worth of content) as well as previous writing samples. You will be paid $10 for each blog post