Dallas Morning News hires Butler as real estate reporter

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.