Alan Zibel, who covers financial services regulation and housing for the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, has resigned to accept a communications job in the nonprofit housing sector.
He is leaving the Journal at the end of the week and will start his new job on March 30.
He joined Dow Jones Newswires in their Washington, D.C. bureau as a financial services and housing reporter in 2010, and was previously a real estate reporter for the Associated Press in Washington, D.C., joining the AP in January 2007.
Prior to the AP, Zibel covered education, health care, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and public utilities for the Baltimore Business Journal. He also worked for the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune, the Concord (N.H.) Monitor and the Middlesex News in Massachusetts.
A graduate of Duke University, he is a Boston native.
