Court Reporter – Journalist
RELX
Senior Reporter
RELX
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Sydney • 🇦🇺 Australia
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Senior
About the role
- Produce accurate, engaging, and timely news and feature stories focused on the financial services and legal sectors.
- Break exclusive stories and contribute investigative pieces on litigation, regulation, and corporate matters.
- Monitor court activity, parliamentary developments, and regulatory trends across Australia.
- Build and maintain a strong network of sources, including lawyers, regulators, policymakers, and financial experts.
- Collaborate with editors, designers, and other reporters to deliver high-quality multimedia journalism.
- Uphold Law360’s editorial standards of accuracy, balance, and integrity.
- Represent Law360 at press briefings, conferences, and public forums.
- Contribute to the culture of innovation in a growing newsroom, including exploring new storytelling formats and AI tools.
Requirements
- A tertiary qualification in journalism, media, communications, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of full-time reporting experience (financial or legal reporting preferred).
- Proven ability to report, write, and edit under deadline pressure.
- Experience covering financial services, regulation, government, or courts.
- Strong research, analytical, and fact-checking skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with an ability to distil complex information.
- Demonstrated integrity, accuracy, and sound news judgment.
- Comfortable collaborating across global teams and managing multiple priorities.
Benefits
- Opportunity to be part of the launch of a new editorial bureau in Australia.
- Global newsroom collaboration with award-winning journalists.
- Optical Assistance
- Life assurance and income protection
- Option to buy additional Annual Leave days
- Employee Assistance Program
- Referral Bonus
- Flexible working arrangements
- Benefits for you and your family
- Access to learning and development resources
- Retail discounts and cashback offers
- Global discounts and free wellbeing & learning classes
- Electric Vehicle Novated Leasing
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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Certifications
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