Courts, Law & Democracy Reporter

The North Carolina Justice Center is seeking a Courts, Law & Democracy Reporter for NC Policy Watch, to investigate, analyze and report on the federal and state judicial systems. This position will cover criminal and civil justice issues in the General Assembly and executive branch agencies, issues related to elections and voting, and other topics.

https://www.ncpolicywatch.com/

Requirements
-BA in Journalism or related field with experience writing about and analyzing legal decisions and/or related policy issues.
-Minimum two years reporting for media outlets, public policy nonprofit, or think tank. Five years preferred.
-Superior written, oral and presentation skills. Previous published articles.
-Proficiency with audio and video equipment and software preferred. Experience with new media technology and social media platforms is required.
-Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, work independently, and support the work of others in the organization.
-Demonstrated commitment to social justice and improving the lives of low-income North Carolinians.
-Some travel and/or weekend and evening availability is required.

The Justice Center offers skilled and committed co-workers, a competitive salary (minimum $42,908/annually DOE), and superior benefits to enhance staff quality of life including but not limited to: six weeks of paid time off, paid maternity/paternity leave, thirteen holidays, $100 monthly parking stipend, retirement plan contribution and match, FSA, medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance coverage. This position is in the Justice Center’s bargaining unit, represented by the National Organization of Legal Service Workers, UAW Local 2320.

The Justice Center is an equal opportunity employer. People of color and individuals from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply for available positions. NCJC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ethnic background, citizenship status, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or disability.

Renewable Energy Project Finance Reporter

NPM is looking for a Renewable Energy Project Finance Reporter to join our editorial team, with a focus on breaking news related to capital market transactions that fund new renewable energy projects, repowering projects and acquisitions of existing renewable energy projects or project pipelines (pre-construction and under construction).

Responsibilities
• Proactively generate story leads on assigned beat
• Consistently file copy to meet daily deadlines
• Build strong relationships with key market sources
• Contribute to market data reports
• Conduct podcast interviews, moderate panel discussions

Requirements
• Strong writing skills
• Driven with the ability to hit the phones and generate scoops
• Investigative mindset with demonstrable interest in renewable energy
• Entrepreneurial attitude and team player

Beneficial
• Working or internship experience at a financial industry focused publication such as Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, Dow Jones, etc.
• Experience working in the Infrastructure/Energy field or related

Benefits
• Competitive compensation package
• High Growth opportunity in a cutting-edge industry
• Travel for in-person events and source meetings
• Healthcare, Dental and generous PTO

Start date: ASAP

Work Location:
• Fully Remote

Work Remotely
• Yes

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $45,000.00 per year

NPM provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, NPM complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.'

Staff Reporter

Gizmodo is looking for a Staff Reporter to join our spirited, high-octane newsroom and write essential reviews and consumer electronics-focused coverage. Specifically, we are looking for someone who specializes in lifestyle technology, including wearables, watches, health trackers, and cool household gadgets. You know the difference between Apple's watchOS and Google's Wear OS, and you're comfortable testing multiple wearables at the same time no matter how dumb it looks. You have a gift for finding the coolest new contraptions for the kitchen or around the home. Most of all, you must have a keen ability to critically and creatively vet PR pitches, great fact-checking skills, and the ability to identify emerging trends.
Experience writing both news and product reviews is a must. A healthy nose for bullshit is also required. The Staff Reporter should be able to see through the flash of the glossiest tech announcement and hone in on exactly why this news matters to Gizmodo’s audience.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
● At least 2-3 years of experience writing consumer technology-focused stories at a major print or digital publication
● A thorough understanding of the major companies, issues, and reader-focused concerns across the technology realm
● The ability to think quickly, decisively, and creatively in a fast-paced newsroom environment
● A tenacious desire to consistently break news and craft poignant commentary on issues across the technology spectrum
● Knowledge of journalistic standards, laws, and reporting practices
● Scripting or on-camera video experience preferred but not required
● A good sense of humor and a quick wit are essential

G/O Media is deeply committed to fostering a transparently inclusive workplace environment and people of color, women, people with disabilities, veterans, and LGBTQ candidates are very strongly encouraged to apply. Our company-wide mission is to reach very diverse audiences and so, we are deeply committed to having teams and leaders that reflect this mission.

Steel reporter

Position Summary

Fastmarkets is looking for a price reporter to cover steel markets in the United States and work within a team of six reporters based in New York and a larger global team. The role focuses on pricing specific steel commodities and producing market reports, breaking news, interviews and in-depth features. The price reporter will report to the North American steel editor, and work closely with colleagues in London, New York, Shanghai, Singapore and Sao Paolo.

Scope and Impact

The price reporter exemplifies the heart of Fastmarkets’ strategy as an industry-leading price provider and operates within a global network of skilled reporters and dedicated resources that offer training, ensure data integrity and enforce strict pricing procedures in line with industry compliance principles. There is scope to review, launch and promote prices and advise senior editorial members of market opportunities. Travel and engaging directly with market participants is also part of the role.

Responsibilities

+Foster in-depth knowledge of the fundamentals, supply chain, end-uses and key participants for specific markets to generate representative prices and world-class content
+Collect pricing data and set prices in line with the company’s methodology, price specifications and IOSCO principles
+Back colleagues up on their pricing patches to provide cover and consistency for the market and build up a wider knowledge base
+Peer review prices to verify that processes have been followed and editorial judgement applied correctly to ensure our prices are representative
+Write market commentaries, breaking news and insightful copy with PRA angles, to support the growth in readership and the use of Fastmarkets’ prices in physical and financial contracts
+Manage and expand the number of industry contacts that submit pricing data and give news exclusives, using all means of communication including face-to-face meetings and networking
+Handle questions from contacts and the market about the dynamics of particular pricing sessions, seeking guidance from senior reporters or section editor when inquiries are sensitive, to make our processes and judgement transparent
+Assist the section editor to review and manage the existing pipeline of prices and identify new price launch opportunities
+Help foster Fastmarkets’ prices and expertise through the team’s market engagement plan, which includes producing PRA content, white papers and infographics, participating to internal and external events, promoting the company on social media, and attending industry meetings

Key Interfaces

+Work with a team of regional price reporters to communicate, define and execute the daily agenda of content and prices in coordination with the global team
+Report to section editor and follow guidance from senior reporters within the team. Attend training courses
+When necessary liaise with other divisions of Fastmarkets (price development, marketing and events) to help implement the company’s PRA strategy
+Engage with major industry participants (traders, producers, consumers and brokers) about the markets you cover, in line with the team’s market engagement plan

Qualifications

+A high level of written and spoken English.
+Knowledge of another language is helpful but not required
An interest in understanding financial markets and commodities
+Strong networking and communication skills, and good confident telephone manner
+Ability to work with discipline and dynamism, and take initiatives to cover stories and find information out
+Team player who fosters excellent working culture and acts - both internally and externally - in a courteous and professional manner with impeccable integrity
+General curiosity in expanding market knowledge and commitment to join in projects and take part in training courses
+Ability to work with numbers and spreadsheets and produce analytical editorial copy
+People skills to answer queries about prices and particular pricing sessions

Requirements

+Some practical experience in journalism or writing, with a focus on skills such as an ability to spot important news and structure an article
+Ability to travel at least once per quarter by car, plane or train
+Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
+Ability to work in the US and on East Coast hours

Perks of Working at Fastmarkets

Medical, dental and vision coverage
401k retirement plan with matching
Vacation time and paid holidays
Wellness program
Onsite events around engaging with our employees
Tuition reimbursement
Commuter benefit program

WEB JOURNALIST

LaPresse S.p.A. is an Italian multimedia news agency leader on the territory.

We are looking for a web journalist working for our new US website.

She/he will have to update daily our website with international and local news written in English, which will be accompanied by videos and pictures supplied by LaPresse HQ.

She/he should be a fast , accurate writer publishing at least 25 takes/ articles per day according to the editorial guidelines given by LaPresse editorial direction

The knowledge of Italian language is welcomed but not mandatory

Staff writer/Weekend editor

TheWeek.com is looking for a voracious writer with exceptional news judgment to join its fast-growing, award-winning site.

This staff writer will work Saturday through Wednesday. On weekdays, this person will be a core part of our breaking news team -- contributing throughout the day to our "Speed Reads" and "Briefings" sections. On the weekend, this person will run all of our news coverage, including our homepage and newsletters.

This individual should be a confident, highly organized news junkie who can write clean, engaging, concise copy with little editing -- and someone who can work successfully in the fast-paced environment of a breaking news-and-opinion website. Versatility, creativity, and wit are critical, as are a passion for the news and a great attitude.

This is an excellent opportunity for a creative self-starter eager to join one of the sharpest and hardest-working teams in our industry.

Staff Reporter

Gizmodo is looking for a driven Staff Reporter to join our fast-paced newsroom. This position will focus on breaking news stories across multiple desks, including tech news, consumer tech, science and climate. The ideal candidate for this position learns quickly on their feet, writes fast, clean copy, and is comfortable covering a wide variety of news topics central to Gizmodo’s mission. You can write with authority about the launch of a new Instagram feature, the spread of wildfires in California, or the introduction of technology-focused legislation in Congress. You can expertly parse press releases and PR statements with a critical eye, identify local news stories of interest to Gizmodo’s broad audience, and have impeccable fact-checking skills. In short, you have an innate sense of what makes a great story for Gizmodo and the ability to hit the news quickly, with confidence and voice.

Newsletter Writer

Apply for this role here: https://airtable.com/shrXd80tYpua448TC

Deadline to apply: Sep. 30, 2021

The role

For the past three years, Early Arrival has been a steady presence in New York’s immigration community, providing local, national and federal news about the biggest stories of the week. We are expanding on this work and want to re-envision our newsletter taking an audience-based approach to foster dialogue with our readership. You will directly engage with the newsletter audience and research their behavior and needs, through interviews and surveys, to better understand how our newsletter can best serve them. Using this information, you will work with the Documented team to design a new format for Early Arrival, and will begin sending and fine tuning as time goes on, establishing an original voice for the newsletter.

We want the newsletter to be a lively space where our audience learns about new ideas and perspectives on the issues they know well. Your work will include interviews, dissecting news items, and fresh reporting on timely subjects. In addition, the newsletter will continue to host aggregation on immigration news from around the country.

The ideal candidate must be enthusiastic about building and growing close relationships with our audience, which is mainly comprised of immigrants, immigration lawyers, academics, city, state and federal government employees and people generally interested in immigration issues. You must be able to follow the news, research and write quickly and have a good sense of standards around fairness and writing fact-based responses to news. Think of the newsletter as a column where you’ll be able to build a voice as an immigration authority with a highly experienced and knowledgeable audience.

We are dedicated to improving our newsroom, by working with people with backgrounds that reflect the population of New York City. We are committed to diversity and building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and ages. We encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ people and people with disabilities.

Job duties:

Writing Documented’s newsletters (currently 3x per week but this may change)
Reporting
Aggregation
Thoughtful, original writing

Owning newsletters’ vision, strategy and engagement with users.

Collaborating with stakeholders in other departments (development, audience, reporters, business & operations)

Conducting and analyzing user research

Producing reports on newsletter analytics (open rate, list size etc.)

Staying on top of immigration-related news and developments

Staying on top of digital news products, with a focus on email newsletters

Coming up with, designing and executing experiments and tests for newsletters.

Job requirements:

Experience in journalism

Writing experience

Experience or interest in actively building and engaging with newsletter audiences

Experience or interest in utilizing a conversational writing style

User/community-oriented

Deadline and detail-oriented

Preferred qualities:

Experience with working with newsletters, emails, and email service providers

HTML skills

Immigration knowledge

Knowledge of New York and federal immigration system

Experience or interest in product design, Human Centered-design, audience research.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary for this role is $75,000. Health and dental benefits and four weeks of paid time off are provided. Eventually, we hope to be able to return to our office full-time, but as of now, the position will be largely remote. We highly value lived experiences in the issues we cover as a news organization. We also understand the difficult work realities due to the pandemic and are open to accommodating people with different work requirements.

Apply for this role here: https://airtable.com/shrXd80tYpua448TC
Deadline to apply: Sep. 30, 2021

Morning Executive Producer

Job ID: 4761. This is a full-time job requiring someone who has had professional experience as a very organized, creative and inspiring Newscast Producer who possesses outstanding leadership skills!

WCIV ABC News 4 in Charleston, South Carolina has an immediate opening for Morning Executive Producer to oversee 4.5 hours of news content for overall fairness, balance and accuracy. The ideal candidate will produce daily newscasts and oversee production of newscasts and special programming. You will work closely with producers and reporters on daily selection and coverage. As a newsroom leader, the expectation is that the AM Executive Producer will lead by example.

Some additional responsibilities of our Executive Producer will include

Oversee daily newscasts to ensure we are serving our local communities by sharing relevant information to alert, protect and empower our audiences
Supervise producers and reporters, as well as, review scripts and provide feedback to encourage powerful storytelling
Manage news room and handle breaking news situations to empower and grow our audiences
Collaborate with News Directors and other station managers to create special segments
Planning and overseeing continuity into upcoming newscasts

What skills do you need to be successful in our role?

Proven track record of creating compelling and engaging stories across multiple platforms
Ability to preform well under pressure, experience managing breaking news and meeting strict deadlines
Ability to identify problems and provide solutions
A strong commitment to journalistic standards and ethics
Extraordinary people skills with an emphasis on coaching and motivating
Strong understanding of how to drive digital traffic
Minimum of 5 years producing in a television news environment or equivalent
A college degree in Journalism or a related field is preferred
Strong writing skills and a proven track record for getting results on initiatives

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace!

Junior health/science editor

Our F360 division is looking for a junior science/health editor. The position will work with a wide range of small, award-winning publications, calling for a range of skills:

• beat reporting on hospitals and health
• technical, long-form content for physician audiences
• assigning and editing long-form science journalism
• engaging health stories for the general public
• multi-media (video, podcast, AR/VR)
• strategy ideation

Experience with journal-level literature and beat reporting a plus. Some writing is involved, and clips are welcomed.