Reporter – Cybersecurity Law Report
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Job Summary
The Cybersecurity Law Report is seeking an experienced and enthusiastic reporter to research and write articles on various topics related to data privacy and cybersecurity laws, regulations, and best practices. Responsibilities include interviewing industry experts, identifying trending topics, developing and maintaining relationships with key industry participants, and attending panels and webinars. The ideal candidate will have strong reporting, writing, research, organizational, and analytical skills, with at least three years of experience in long-form reporting on cybersecurity and privacy issues. A Juris Doctor or equivalent law degree is preferred. The role involves creating engaging, thorough, and sophisticated articles under deadline.
Must Have
- 3+ years of reporting experience on privacy and cybersecurity laws
- Excellent reporting, writing, research, and analytical skills
- Ability to create engaging and thorough articles under deadline
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Excellent proofreading skills
Good to Have
- Juris Doctor or equivalent law degree
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
- Researching and writing articles of various types – including our feature thematic, Q&A, analysis and webinar/panel coverage articles – based on extensive interviews of and other interactions with industry experts. Articles typically address developments in the field (i.e., regulation, laws, breaches, settlements, guidelines, etc.), best practices for the industry and other topics relevant to our subscribers;
- Identifying article topics, themes, trends and ideas that are central to the day-to-day business practices of our subscribers – primarily through engagement with sources and secondarily through reading, viewing webinars and other information gathering;
- Developing and maintaining relationships with key industry participants with the goals of: understanding the “pain points” experienced by practitioners (particularly CPOs, CISOs, GCs and CCOs), cultivating sources for articles, and gathering industry intelligence;
- Attending panels and webinars.
Required Skills, Qualifications and Experience:
- Strong command of privacy and cybersecurity laws and regulations, evidenced by at least three years of paid, long-form (i.e., 3,000+ word) reporting experience dealing with related issues;
- Juris Doctor or equivalent law degree preferred, but not required;
- Excellent reporting, writing, research, organizational and analytical abilities, with a demonstrated capacity to consistently create engaging, thorough, sophisticated articles under deadline that require minimal editing;
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail; and
- Excellent proofreading skills.
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