NY Post hires Paynter to cover luxury real estate

Sarah Paynter

The New York Post has hired reporter Sarah Paynter to cover luxury real estate.

She will start Jan. 11.

Paynter had been at Yahoo Finance covering real estate. She had been nominated for the Yahoo Finance trailblazer award for her “Mall of the Future” article, which was Yahoo’s first interscroller article and first augmented reality experience, plus it had audio for accessibility.

She is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where she focused on business journalism. She won the Philip Greer Memorial Scholarship Fund Award for outstanding financial journalism.

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.