Contino hired to cover housing, gentrification at Greenville News

Genna Contino

Spartanburg Herald-Journal Genna Contino has been hired by the Greenville News to cover housing and gentrification.

She will start March 15.

“I’m so excited to return to this talented newsroom covering such an important beat,” she wrote on Twitter.

Contino is a 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.