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WSJ hires Niiler to cover climate

Eric Niiler

The Wall Street Journal has hired Eric Niiler to cover climate.

He is a former contributing writer to Wired and has written about science, technology, and climate for the Washington Post, National Geographic, and Discovery News. He contributed to NPR as an on-air reporter and filed stories from Antarctica, Estonia and Mexico.

In April 2004, he was embedded with U.S. Marines in Fallujah during combat operations.

Niiler is a former reporter at WETA-FM Washington, and KPBS-FM San Diego, and was a staff writer for The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Patriot-Ledger, and The Charleston Gazette. On Capitol Hill, he guided a team of reporters covering Congress for local public radio stations, serving as both mentor and editor.

Niiler has a master’s degree in Science and Medical Journalism from Boston University, and a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley.

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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