Categories: OLD Media Moves

WSJ reporter Zibel leaving for PR

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.

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.