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Website launches to help find missing WSJ reporter

A website — www.finddavidbird.info — has been launched to help find Wall Street Journal reporter David Bird, who has been missing now for 14 months.

A story on newjerseyhills.com states, “Bird disappeared during a walk near his Millington home on Jan. 11, 2014.

“‘The site includes the latest information on the search, missing person flyers that can be downloaded and printed, stories from David’s remarkable life, media coverage, and information on how to assist the Bird family,’ according to a statement. Website design and hosting is donated by Heide Alexander of OnCom Digital Media, NYC.

“‘David’s disappearance has been a long, trying ordeal, and it never gets any easier,’ said David’s wife, Nancy. ‘But I’m committed to doing everything possible to find David. This new website is another tool to keep people aware of the search and how they can help. I truly appreciate the hard work Heide put into the site and I’m grateful for OnCom Digital Media’s generosity.  I know it’s going to help spread the word on David’s disappearance and raise awareness of the shocking number of missing people in the U.S.’

“David Bird is 6 foot one inch and weighed approximately 200 pounds at the time of his disappearance. He has gray hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a red rain jacket with two yellow zippers, blue jeans and sneakers. He has a distinctive scar, a large inverted Y, on his chest and abdomen, the result of a liver transplant.”

Read more here.

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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