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Dow Jones/WSJ reporter leaves for Agence France-Presse

John Biers, an energy reporter for Dow Jones Newswires and The Wall Street Journal, left the company on Friday.

He will begin his new job with Agence France-Press on Monday.

In an email to his colleagues on Friday, Biers wrote, “I’ve really enjoyed working with everybody over the eight or so years I’ve been with the company, and I’ll miss you all a great deal. Starting Monday, I’ll be covering business issues from New York for Agence France-Presse.”

Biers was Houston bureu chief of Dow Jones from May 2003 to August 2008. Before that, he was an energy reporter for The New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Before that, he was a Capitol Hill correspondent for States News Service for three years. Biers is a Harvard graduate.

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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