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Dow Jones ME in London leaving wire service

Leia Parker, a Dow Jones Newswires managing editor for energy and commodities coverage in Europe, Middle East and Africa, is leaving the wire service. Friday is her last day.

In an email to the staff, Parker wrote:

I’ll soon be moving on after 13 wonderful years of working for Dow Jones Newswires and contributing to The Wall Street Journal in the EMEA and Americas regions. Thanks to all of you who have made these the best years of my life.
It’s been a privilege to work with so many gifted reporters and editors around the world, covering energy and commodities companies and markets.

Parker received a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Brigham Young University and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She started at Dow Jones as a reporter and an assistant news editor in 2000. She later managed the U.S. petroleum reporting team from New York. Parker moved to London in 2005.

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.