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Reward offered for missing WSJ reporter

Investigators have found no trace of a Wall Street Journal reporter who went missing in January, and a $10,000 reward is now being offered for information leading to his location.

Jennifer Maloney of The Journal writes, “David Bird was last seen leaving his home for a short walk on Jan. 11 in the Millington section of Long Hill Township, N.J. Officials conducted a ground, water and air search involving hundreds of volunteers, and then turned to other investigative methods, combing through Mr. Bird’s financial records, cellphone records and emails, said Long Hill Township Police Chief Michael Mazzeo.

“So far, investigators have turned up nothing to suggest how or why he disappeared, Mr. Mazzeo said.

“‘There’s been thousands of work hours that have been put into this,’ he said. ‘I’ve never seen anything like it before. There are so many different avenues that you could possibly take because there’s nothing leading us in a specific direction.’

“Mr. Bird’s wife, Nancy Bird, described the reward as ‘really kind of our last tool.'”

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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.