The Wall Street Journal’s Detroit bureau, which does the bulk of its automobile industry reporting, has lost its deputy bureau chief, and its bureau chief is leaving later this week.
Deputy bureau chief Mike Colias left last week. Bureau chief Christina Rogers is leaving on Wednesday. Both are leaving voluntarily — Colias starts Monday as U.S. autos editor at Reuters, and Rogers has accepted a position in another industry.
Colias wrote about the auto industry’s massive and messy transition to electric vehicles, self-driving cars and other technologies with the potential to reshape how people get around. He wrote and edited stories about Ford, GM and other major car companies navigating change, from EVs and in-car tech to tariffs.
He is also author of the 2025 book: “Inevitable: Inside the Messy, Unstoppable Transition to Electric Vehicles.”
Colias joined WSJ from trade publication Automotive News, where he covered GM. Before that, he wrote about health care at Crain’s Chicago Business and worked at The Associated Press in Chicago. He graduated from Ohio University with degrees in journalism and business.
Rogers leads a team of U.S.-based reporters and directs industry coverage globally. In this role, she works with journalists on three continents, managing and editing stories on the world’s largest car companies.
Under her direction, the WSJ autos team has dominated some of the industry’s most competitive beats and stories: Carlos Ghosn’s arrest and escape, the trans-Atlantic merger of PSA and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, and the UAW strike in 2023. Her team was a finalist for a Gerald Loeb award in 2021 for a globe-spanning video project on electric cars.
Rogers joined the Journal in 2012 as an auto reporter, covering Fiat Chrysler and later Ford.
She has written about the auto sector for more than a decade, breaking news on merger deals and leadership changes and chronicling the rise of new technologies, such as self-driving and electric cars.
Prior to working at the Journal, she was the beat reporter for General Motors at the Detroit News. She has also worked as a business reporter at the Roanoke Times and a staff writer for trade publication Automotive News.
