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Penny Hoarder ME Schlander hired to start real estate news operation

John Schlander

The Penny Hoarder managing editor John Schlander has been hired by Clever Real Estate to starts a news operation.

He will start on Monday.

“It’s a rare opportunity to build a news department from scratch at a fast-growing startup with a great mission.,” he wrote on Facebook.

Clever was founded in 2017 with the idea of making selling or buying a home easier and more affordable for everyone.

Schlander joined The Penny Hoarder in 2016 after a 32-year career at the Tampa Bay Times, Florida’s largest newspaper. He worked there in a series of editing roles before becoming digital general manager in 2013.

Schlander specializes in analytics and search engine optimization. He’s also a frequent speaker at trade conferences.

Schlander has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Penn 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.

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