Greenville reporter Contino hired by Charlotte Observer

Genna Contino

Greenville News reporter Genna Contino, who has been covering housing and gentrification, has been hired by the Charlotte Observer to the city and Mecklenburg County.

Her last day is May 6.

She has been at the News for the last year.

Contino has previously been the growth and development reporter at the Spartanburg Herald-Journal and a graduate of the University of South Carolina.

She was previously a reporting intern at The Greenville News.

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.