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Body in New Jersey confirmed as that of WSJ reporter

David Bird, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was missing for more than a year, has been found dead near the site of his disappearance, reports Melanie Grayce West of the Journal.

West reports, “Mr. Bird was born in Trenton, N.J., the youngest of six children. He graduated from Rider College and worked for a time at the Fort Myers, Fla., News-Press, according to a website created by Mr. Bird’s family.

“A year into his career with Dow Jones Newswires, Mr. Bird transferred to Dow Jones’s London office. After five years in the newsrooms, he took time off to travel throughout Europe and the Middle East.

“Mr. Bird returned from his travels in 1988 and resumed work in the news industry. Around this time, he met his future wife, Nancy Fleming.

“He proposed to her with 10 toy rings purchased at a grocery store. The couple married in 1991 and traveled together widely before the birth of their son in 1998 and a daughter in 2001.”

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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.