# Market Reporter, Metals

**Company**: Argus Media
**Location**: Pittsburgh
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Media and Communications

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## Description

We are seeking an early career reporter to join our Pittsburgh-based team covering steel and ferrous scrap markets. As a Market Reporter, Metals, you will develop expertise in the steel industry, from raw materials to finished products. Your responsibilities will include:

- Monitoring and assessing markets to produce weekly and monthly price assessments, market commentaries, news, analysis, and reports

- Curating data and maintaining and analyzing existing data series to inform coverage and develop graphs and charts within Excel to illustrate trends and analysis

- Developing an understanding of relevant commodity markets, working with other Argus teams to produce joint content

- Conducting regular meetings and daily communication with key members of the industry, including traders, brokers, and business leaders to build relationships and gather news

- Contributing copy to relevant daily and periodical publications and the online news service, and contributing to special content and presentations as required

- Working with other departments to help promote the use of Argus price assessments and help develop new pricing tools for the battery metals markets

- Attending meetings, conferences, and industry events to build contacts, report on news, and represent Argus in the industry

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- A graduate with a strong degree, preferably in journalism

- Proven ability to develop, source, and write industry-relevant news to deadline

- Knowledge of commodity markets is preferred

- Excellent writing, grammar, and numeracy skills

- Ability to use data in generating stories and analysis

- Excellent communication skills with the ability to network and build contacts with industry executives

- Strong presentation skills

- Prior experience of working in the financial or energy journalism sector is useful but not essential

- Strong coordination and time management skills with the ability to work well within a team

- Additional languages useful but not essential

- Demonstrable interest in global business and politics

- Self-motivated, able to use initiative and equipped with an inquisitive nature

- Ability to collaborate and work within a close-knit team

In return, we offer:

- Competitive salary

- Group medical, dental, and vision plans

- Company-paid short-term and long-term disability and life insurance plan

- Group 401(k) safe harbor retirement plan with a 6% company match

- 20 vacation days your first year, up to a maximum of 30 days

- Subsidized gym membership

- Extensive internal and external training

## Skills

### Required
- journalism
- writing
- communication
- data analysis
- Excel

### Nice to have
- commodity markets
- financial journalism
- energy journalism
- presentation skills
- additional languages

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