MORRISTOWN, N.J. - Authorities in Morris County, N.J. say a body found this week in a river is a former Wall Street Journal reporter who had been missing for more than a year.

County Prosecutor Fredric Knapp announced Thursday that the body was positively identified as David Bird, who was 55 when he disappeared in January 2014 while taking a walk near his home in Long Hill Township.

Knapp says two men canoeing in the Passaic River on Wednesday came across a red jacket. Police later found human remains.

Bird had worked for the Journal's publisher, Dow Jones & Co., for more than 20 years.

The medical examiner is working to determine Bird's cause of death.