Flint retiring from Dow Jones Newswires

Michael Casey, managing editor for foreign exchange & fixed income, Americas at Dow Jones Newswires, and Jim Pinsiero,the editor of Dow Jones FX Trader, sent out the following announcement on Friday afternoon:

Some bittersweet news: After a distinguished career at Dow Jones spanning nearly two decades, Robert Flint will be retiring at the end of June. As some of you know, Robert has been building a home in Thailand and intends to move there permanently in coming months. His departure will leave us without the vast store of global markets and economic knowledge he brings to work each and every day, along with his sweet, collaborative nature.

Robert joined Dow Jones Newswires in 1991 in Sweden as chief correspondent for Scandinavia and Stockholm bureau chief. In 1994, he moved to Beijing to open the first DJN bureau there. In 1997, he returned to the U.S. to become an assistant news editor responsible for coordinating coverage of foreign-exchange markets as well as supervising forex and fixed income reporters in Canada. He became a news editor in 2005 and in 2011 joined the newly formed pan-asset-class Market Talk hub.

Between 1973 and 1997, Robert lived in countries in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Prior to joining Dow Jones, he worked for several different news organizations and publications as well as writing on a free-lance basis.

We know you’ll join us in wishing Robert all the best in his new adventure. We’ll fete him appropriately before he leaves us at the end of June.