WSJ reporter Dade leaves for NPR

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Corey Dade, a reporter in The Wall Street Journal‘s Atlanta bureau, said goodbye to staff members on Monday to take a job as a national correspondent for National Public Radio. He will be based in Washington, D.C.

In an e-mail to his co-workers, Dade wrote, “Today is my last day at the Journal after a wonderful, unbelievable five-year run here in the Atlanta bureau. I came aboard in the throws of Hurricane Katrina and depart in the midst of the BP oil spill, so these Louisiana stories seem to be fitting bookends for my time at the paper. This has been the most rewarding, challenging and period of my career, and I’m grateful for it as well as the great friends I’ve made along the way.”

Corey has been president of the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists, one of the largest and oldest chapters of the National Association of Black Journalists, and on the board of the Atlanta Press Club. He served on the program committees for the 2007 NABJ annual convention and the 2008 UNITY: Journalists of Color convention. In 2001, under Corey’s presidency of the Detroit NABJ affiliate, it won the Chapter of the Year award.

At the Journal, Corey also covered Delta Air Lines’ bankruptcy, the Virginia Tech shootings and the 2008 presidential campaign.

Previously Corey has worked at the Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Detroit Free Press and the Miami Herald. He has been a frequent commentator on TV and radio networks such as Fox News, National Public Radio, CNN, Headline News and CNBC.