The Wall Street Journal is seeking a reporter to cover metals in our London commodities-market team.
The reporter will have primary responsibility for metals markets in London and for the London Metal Exchange, the global hub of industrial-metals trading. The role involves real-time coverage of these significant commodities, but the reporter is expected to paint well across the wide canvas afforded by gold, silver, platinum, copper, palladium and others.
The metals markets provide an entrée into significant, global stories: Mineral exploitation in Africa, China’s appetite for industrial metals, India’s changing demand for gold. The clubby world of metals trading is also packed with curious characters, and we need profiles of the investors, sophisticated or not, who surf in these waters.
There is plenty of tumult in metals, including regulatory investigations into benchmark manipulation, a big financing scandal at a Chinese port, and a fight between metal miners, metal users and the banks that finance them. The reporter will need the chops to stay ahead of these stories.
We don’t need commodities or metals experience per se, though it won’t hurt. We do need keen sourcing abilities and an instinct for digging.
To apply, go here.
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