Dallas real estate reporter Butler becomes food and events editor

Anna Butler

Anna Butler, a real estate reporter at the Dallas Morning News, has become the newspaper’s food and events editor.

She joined the Morning News in January after working at the Dallas Business Journal as its managing editor and real estate editor.

Butler also worked as 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.

She also worked as a consultant to several smaller Texas newspapers to help them develop digital-first workflow efficiencies. Butler is a graduate of Wake Forest, where she majored in history and minored in art history and Latin.

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.