Bilingual Commodities Journalist

Nashville Public Radio; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

High compensation

International exposure

Market expertise

Industry engagement platform

Job summary

Nashville Public Radio in Houston is seeking a Bilingual Commodities Journalist to break into global markets reporting with strong Spanish and English. You will break news, build trusted sources, and deliver analytical copy shaping commercial decisions across metals, energy, agriculture and forest products.

You will develop specialist market knowledge, cultivate sources across international markets, and represent the brand at webinars, events and panels.

Qualifications

• Strong journalism or reporting background.
• Professional fluency in written and spoken Spanish and English.
• Strong interviewing, networking and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Break news and produce insightful market commentary across international commodity markets.
• Build a strong network of industry sources and develop trusted relationships.
• Develop specialist knowledge of market fundamentals, supply chains and commercial forces shaping metals markets.
• Represent the business externally through market engagement, webinars, events and panel discussions.

Skills

Strong journalism background

Bilingual Spanish & English

Interviewing & networking

Job description

Bilingual Commodities Journalist

Location: Houston Hybrid

Travel: Occasional business travel

Compensation: Strong package reflecting experience and scope

Turn Your Journalism Experience Into Market-Moving Intelligence

Bring your reporting instincts, Spanish-language skills and ability to build trusted sources into a specialist global markets environment. This is an opportunity to produce journalism that cuts through complexity and enables critical commercial decisions across international commodities markets.

Package / Benefits

• Strong compensation package reflecting experience
• International exposure across global commodity markets
• Opportunity to build specialist financial and market expertise
• Visible platform through news coverage, webinars, events and industry engagement

Why This Business

Join a globally respected provider of commodity market intelligence with a heritage stretching back more than 150 years. Its reporting, data and analysis are relied upon by market participants navigating complex global markets across metals, energy, agriculture and forest products.

With 700+ employees internationally, the business combines the reach of an established global organisation with an editorial culture built around trusted information, rigorous methodology and deep market knowledge.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Break news and produce sharp, insightful market commentary across international commodity markets.
• Build a strong network of industry sources, developing trusted relationships that generate intelligence, data and exclusive stories.
• Develop specialist knowledge of market fundamentals, supply chains and the commercial forces shaping metals markets.
• Represent the business externally through market engagement, with opportunities to contribute to webinars, events and panel discussions.

What You’ll Bring

• A strong journalism or reporting background, with the ability to identify stories, develop sources and produce accurate, analytical copy.
• Professional fluency in written and spoken Spanish and English.
• Strong interviewing, networking and communication skills, with confidence engaging industry contacts directly.
• An interest in financial, commodity or business markets, with the ability to become credible in a specialist subject area.

Who This Suits

You’re a journalist who enjoys getting beneath the surface of a story, building sources and understanding what is really driving a market. You’re commercially minded and curious, and you want to take your reporting skills into a specialist field where your work has direct relevance to global businesses and decision-makers.

You do not need previous recycled metals experience or a price reporting background. What matters is strong journalism, fluent Spanish and the ability to develop genuine subject-matter expertise.