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Assistant Managing Editor, Law360 Canada

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About Us

LexisNexis, a part of RELX, is a leading global provider of legal, regulatory, and business information. We help customers increase productivity and improve decision-making and outcomes. Our 10,500 experts and innovative tools help us shape a better world for our customers and communities.

Law360 Canada, published by LexisNexis Canada, is looking for an experienced news editor with a background in daily news reporting to join our legal news publishing team. The deadline is open until we find the right candidate.

This role can be performed anywhere within Canada.

The role

With a strong background in editorial decision making and daily news reporting, you will source, assign to reporters, write, and publish fast turnaround news articles geared to a legal audience. Candidate must be a self-starter comfortable with a fast paced, deadline driven environment.

Key responsibilities

The Assistant Managing Editor will participate in all aspects of producing daily news content, including:

• Report to the managing editor, and provide coverage for managing editor as needed, including running editorial meetings, assigning stories, and final review and publishing of news content.
• Manage a team of reporters who are responsible for production of daily legal news content in one or more designated areas of practice.
• Researching, assigning, writing, and publishing news stories about the Canadian legal industry, including court decisions, court filings, legislative announcements and other industry news, in specifically targeted areas of practice.

Requirements

• Sound knowledge of Canadian Press style
• Experience writing about the Canadian legal industry
• Excellent reporting and writing skills
• Proven ability to work independently, on tight deadlines, with a high attention to detail
• Ability to lead process improvement initiatives within team and leverage technology to continuously improve quality and efficiency of news idea sourcing
• Able to handle multiple priorities in a tight, deadline-oriented environment
• Previous newsroom experience, and experience managing a newsroom team of 5 or more
• Proven sound editorial judgment
• Excellent communication skills, highly organized and self-motivated
• Degree in journalism
• Ability to use variety of news research tools efficiently, including web scrapping technology to source news story ideas (including court decisions, announcements)
• Legal or business background is an asset
• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with team to ensure quality daily production of news content
• Experience in using content management systems is an asset

Working with Us

LexisNexis Legal & Professional is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to equal opportunity employment. Together, we are building a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Working for you

We believe in a healthy work/life balance. We know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We offer a comprehensive benefits plan including vacation, medical, dental, health, vision, paramedical and pension plan matching.

About our Team

LexisNexis is a data and analytics company with 10,500 colleagues serving customers in more than 150 countries. We’re one of the largest information and analytics companies on the planet. We design solutions that help our customers increase productivity, improve decision-making and outcomes, and be more successful.