POSITION AVAILABLE ~ JURIST seeking West Coast-based editor News
POSITION AVAILABLE ~ JURIST seeking West Coast-based editor

[JURIST] JURIST is seeking to expand its Webby award-winning staff of professional editors by hiring a talented, public-service oriented individual with law and/or journalism experience to serve as a part-time legal news editor based in California.

JURIST's West Coast Editor will share responsibility for managing JURIST's daily research, writing and publishing operations and will help supervise production of content for Paper Chase, JURIST's real-time news arm, by working with JURIST's student staff of legal news writers, helping them research and write stories in real time as they are drafted, editing the product as presented, and publishing their reports to JURIST's website.

For more details, read the full job description.

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