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Bloomberg seeks commodities reporter in Beijing

Bloomberg News is seeking a reporter to cover China’s commodities industry. Based in Beijing, the successful candidate will be required to break market-moving news and write agenda-setting and memorable features on companies active across mining and metals, food and agriculture.

In addition to a fantastic track record of scoops and insightful enterprise stories, the reporter should have a strong understanding of the policy issues that affect China’s resources industry. The reporter should be flexible, calm under pressure and a quick learner. He or she may from time to time be called upon to help cover China’s energy story and its commodities and energy markets, as well as other news coverage for our China bureaus and the wider Asian commodities and energy industry team. The position could also be based in Shanghai.

Qualifications:

– Experience of working in a real-time news environment or at a newspaper is preferred
– Chinese-language fluency is mandatory

To apply, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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