The following announcement was sent to The Dallas Morning News staff by Business Editor Paul O’Donnell:
We’re extremely excited to announce the hiring of Anna Butler as our new real estate reporter.
We’ve been tracking Anna’s career for nearly a decade and she arrives in our newsroom with a wealth of experience, including a rock-solid familiarity with the Dallas-Fort Worth real estate market.
She built a four-person real estate news team at the Dallas Business Journal before later becoming the publication’s managing editor.
Her background also includes stints as a corporate transactions reporter at the Texas Lawbook, director of operations at a family office investment firm in Dallas and managing web editor at a travel and tourism website in Austin. Most recently, she worked as a consultant to several smaller Texas newspapers to help them develop digital-first workflow efficiencies.
But there’s also a lot more to know about Anna, such as:
We can’t wait for her to join the newsroom on a full-time basis. Her first day with us will be Monday, Jan. 22.