Legal Correspondent, India

Brainware University


Professor/associate Professor- Law
Brainware University • Kolkata, West Bengal • via Trabajo.org
20 hours ago
Full–time
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**Exciting Career Opportunity: Join Brainware University as an Associate/Professor of Law ️**

Are you a dedicated legal scholar, educator, or practitioner looking to inspire and shape the future of law professionals? Brainware University invites you to become a part of our esteemed faculty team and make a significant impact in the field of law
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Thomson Reuters


Legal Correspondent, India
Thomson Reuters • New Delhi, Delhi • via Trabajo.org
18 hours ago
Full–time
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The role will require sourcing up with private lawyers, government counsels and company sources to break news on major legal developments, and even potential case filings. The position is a key role in a country where companies often fight long-drawn shareholder or taxation disputes, which raises their reputational and business risks. Also of growing importance is coverage involving activists who file cases challenging Indian regulations and laws, sparking court battles that often shape the policy making process. The journalist should also be able to develop sources in enforcement and crime-fighting agencies to break news on developments related to bank frauds or white-collar crime cases.

This is a terrific opportunity for a talented and ambitious journalist to make an impact on a competitive and high-profile beat with the world’s largest independent multimedia news organization.
• *About the Role**

As our **India Legal Correspondent**,** you will:

- Work closely with colleagues on company news, general, politics and economy teams in India to write about big cases, business disputes and high-profile investigations.
- Try and differentiate reporting by spotting the hidden stories in court filings and other legal documents. Dig deeper into how companies maneuver around such cases
- Be able to build a strong network of sources in India, including lawyers and officials at enforcement agencies
- Work on insightful and high-impact legal stories within the wider general news and corporate finance news file
- Be able to work with multimedia teams including pictures, graphics and video to develop 360-degree storytelling
• *About You**

You’re a fit for the role of **India Legal Correspondent** if you have:

- Excellent source-building and writing skills, and a passion to own and lead big news developments
- Deep understanding of legal matters and the ability to explain complex cases simply to a global audience
- A strong work ethic and are a team player willing to collaborate with tips and ideas
- Fluency in English
• *What’s in it For You**

At Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

- ** Global Career**: as a global company, we can offer a truly international career and progression opportunities
- ** Learning Development**: we have a dedicated training team focused on the continuous development of our journalists
- ** Benefits**: we offer competitive salary packages and market leading benefits
- ** Perks**: Work alongside Pulitzer’s Prize winning journalists and a team who provide unmatched, award-winning coverage of the world’s most important stories.
• *About Reuters**

Reuters is the world’s largest multimedia news provider. Founded in 1851, it is committed to the Trust Principles of independence, integrity and freedom from bias. With unmatched coverage in over 16 languages, and reaching billions of people worldwide every day, Reuters provides trusted intelligence that powers humans and machines to make smart decisions. It supplies business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers. Reuters: The Real World in Real Time

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
• *Accessibility**

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace. Read more