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WSJ seeks metals reporter in London

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.

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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