Argus Leader biz reporter moves to real estate beat

Symmone Gauer

Symmone Gauer, a business reporter for the Sioux Falls Argus Leader in South Dakota, is moving to the real estate and development beat for the paper.

Shelly Conlon of the Argus Leader writes, “That effort will stretch anywhere from the latest HGTV housing show to come to our great city, to affordable housing, evictions and challenges faced by those who are homeless.”

Gauer has been with the newspaper since April 2022. She previously interned with Aberdeen Magazine.

She is a graduate of South Dakota State University.

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.