Dallas Morning News real estate reporter Parton departs

Mitchell Parton

Mitchell Parton, a residential real estate reporter at the Dallas Morning News, is leaving the paper for a new opportunity in Dallas.

He started at the paper in February 2022.

For the previous two years, Parton had covered the commercial real estate beat in San Antonio, writing for the San Antonio Business Journal. He’s covered major corporate real estate deals in the San Antonio area and broken stories about property sales and growth in that metro area.

Parton is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati. While in school, he worked at the student newspaper.

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.