Dallas Morning News business editor Paul O’Donnell sent out the following to the staff:
All,
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:
She’s a seventh-generation Texan.
She hosts a weekly trivia night and participates in quarterly racial reconciliation dinners.
She’s a graduate of Wake Forest, where she majored in history and minored in art history and Latin.
She studied at the International Culinary Center in New York, where she trained in classic French techniques.
She’s an active golf, tennis and mahjong player.
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.
