Yahoo Finance hires Paynter to cover real estate

Sarah Paynter

Sarah Paynter has been hired by Yahoo Finance to cover real estate.

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.

Paynter received Dow Jones News Fund business reporting internship at Newsday on Long Island, where she covered millennials, employment and cost of living.

She is a graduate of James Madison University in Virginia, where she majored in psychology and minored in writing, rhetoric and technical communication

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.