Houston Chronicle reporter fired for stripper gig lands new journalism job
A reporter who was fired last year from the Houston Chronicle after she was outed as a stripper has landed a new journalism job.
Sarah
Tressler, 30, was fired in April as a society reporter for the
newspaper after failing to inform her supervisors of her after-hours
career, which she chronicled on her blog, “Diary of an Angry Stripper.”
Tressler’s second job was revealed by Houston Press’ Richard Connelly in
a blog posting in March.
She’s
now a reporter for the San Antonio Express-News, covering “cops, crime
and general mayhem,” according to her Twitter account, which has more
than 1,500 followers.After hiring celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, Tressler sued her former employer’s parent company, the Hearst Corp., which also owns the Express-News, alleging that the firing was unfair.
“I was notified … that I was being terminated because my prior activity as an adult dancer was not disclosed when I applied for the job,” according to the gender discrimination complaint filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. “I believe that the stated reason for my termination was pretextual in that I answered the questions that were put to me truthfully in connection with my application for employment. The true reason from my termination was discrimination on account of my gender.” Sarah Tressler, Houston Journalist Is Now A Full Time Stripper, Hired As Breaking News Reporter
One former society journalist, Sarah Tressler, lived a double life doing the latter, raking in around $2,000 a night.
Last March, however, Tressler was stripped of her reporting gig at the
Houston Chronicle after their competitors, the Houston Press, exposed
her secret identity.
But now the “Angry Stripper” has some great news.
She just landed a new job at The San Anotonio Express-News as a breaking news reporter, the Houston Press reports.
Editor Mike Leary told the Houston Press via e-mail that Tressler is the newest member of the paper’s “Go Team,” which “covers breaking news, primarily for our Website.” She started on Jan. 11.
While moonlighting as a an exotic dancer and writing under the pseudonym “The Angry Stripper,” Tressler detailed the sordid details of her nighttime clients including an anecdote about oral sex from actor Jeremy Piven while studying for her masters in Journalism at NYU, Gawker reported. Her bare-all style earned her a book deal and national tour.
Tressler is not alone. She is among a slew of professionals with sexed-up double lives.
Stacie Halas, a California middle-school teacher who wasfired for her porn star past was recently offered a new job, too. Dennis Hof of Nevada’s infamous Nevada Brothel, Moonlite BunnyRanch is interested in hiring Halas.
But now the “Angry Stripper” has some great news.
She just landed a new job at The San Anotonio Express-News as a breaking news reporter, the Houston Press reports.
Editor Mike Leary told the Houston Press via e-mail that Tressler is the newest member of the paper’s “Go Team,” which “covers breaking news, primarily for our Website.” She started on Jan. 11.
While moonlighting as a an exotic dancer and writing under the pseudonym “The Angry Stripper,” Tressler detailed the sordid details of her nighttime clients including an anecdote about oral sex from actor Jeremy Piven while studying for her masters in Journalism at NYU, Gawker reported. Her bare-all style earned her a book deal and national tour.
Tressler is not alone. She is among a slew of professionals with sexed-up double lives.
Stacie Halas, a California middle-school teacher who wasfired for her porn star past was recently offered a new job, too. Dennis Hof of Nevada’s infamous Nevada Brothel, Moonlite BunnyRanch is interested in hiring Halas.
“I don’t believe that I should have been terminated because of a claim that I did not disclose on my employment application that I worked as an exotic dancer,” the statement read. “There was no question on the form that covered my dancing.”
Allred said Tressler had been employed full-time by the Houston Chronicle from Jan. 19 to March 27. She earned her journalism degree from New York University in 2009 and later worked as a stringer for US Weekly in Los Angeles.
“In order to support herself, Sarah started performing as an exotic dancer beginning when she was 22 years old,” Allred said in a statement in May. “Her only other job at that time was as a barista at Starbucks earning $7.25 an hour. She needed the extra money to help pay for college and other expenses.”
Allred said Tressler worked as an independent contractor when she danced at exotic clubs and therefore did not need to list that activity when she applied for the full-time newspaper position.
“Sarah’s work as a dancer is lawful and is not a crime,” Allred’s statement continued. “It does not, has not and will not affect her ability to perform her job as a journalist.”
Attempts to reach Tressler on Wednesday were unsuccessful.
FoxNews.com's Joshua Rhett Miller contributed to this report.
Crime
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Quickly Laments Lack of Gun Control in Wake of School Shooting: ‘Gun Violence Has Been Epidemic in This Country’
- Posted on December 14, 2012 at 1:53pm by Jonathon M. Seidl
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In the immediate aftermath of the Connecticut elementary school shooting in Newtown, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell was quick to bring up gun control, lamenting that there doesn’t seem to be enough of it.
Before any facts of the shooting were known (such as what type of gun was used or even the mental state of the shooter), Mitchell rattled off gun control issues championed by the left:
“We know the contours of this debate, and it will get heated after an appropriate period of mourning and absorbing this tragedy. But it is worth adding all sides of the debate,” he cautioned. “We don’t know what the motive is here. We don’t know more about the shooter. We don’t know about the weapon involved. What we know is this is another horrible case of gun violence.”
After Mitchell cut to an interview with one of the children in the school at the time, he continued: “There’s so many facts that we just don’t know, so we shouldn’t speculate about.”
Another contributor later piped up: “And of course gun control not an issue at all in the presidential campaign.”
And even though Gregory did somewhat entertain that thought, he cautioned again that “even if the starting point is we have an epidemic of gun violence…how do we address this that doesn’t just automatically go to the place of gun control. Again, in this situation we have no idea, what the access to weapons here, what any of those factors were, and we won’t speculate on that.”
Watch it unfold, below:
Later on in her show, Mitchell brought on Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic. Goldberg was quick to criticize gun laws and even said the gun lobby doesn’t want “any background checking whatsoever” (a dubious claim), but then added that it’s still wrong for the left to “demonize” legal gun owners:
MSNBC Reports This story has Not been updated with additional video and quotes.
Before any facts of the shooting were known (such as what type of gun was used or even the mental state of the shooter), Mitchell rattled off gun control issues championed by the left:
“When we talk about gun violence in this country, we’re not talking about Second Amendment rights. We’re talking about…reasonable background checks, reasonable controls, automatic weaponry and ammo, the multiple rounds that cause the greatest amount of violence. … Gun violence has been epidemic in this country going back decades. And we go through temporary periods…where we have an assault weapon ban, and then it is permitted to expire, David.”But in what might shock some, colleague David Gregory threw some cold water on her hot comments, cautioning her to wait until more information was available.
“We know the contours of this debate, and it will get heated after an appropriate period of mourning and absorbing this tragedy. But it is worth adding all sides of the debate,” he cautioned. “We don’t know what the motive is here. We don’t know more about the shooter. We don’t know about the weapon involved. What we know is this is another horrible case of gun violence.”
After Mitchell cut to an interview with one of the children in the school at the time, he continued: “There’s so many facts that we just don’t know, so we shouldn’t speculate about.”
Another contributor later piped up: “And of course gun control not an issue at all in the presidential campaign.”
And even though Gregory did somewhat entertain that thought, he cautioned again that “even if the starting point is we have an epidemic of gun violence…how do we address this that doesn’t just automatically go to the place of gun control. Again, in this situation we have no idea, what the access to weapons here, what any of those factors were, and we won’t speculate on that.”
Watch it unfold, below:
Later on in her show, Mitchell brought on Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic. Goldberg was quick to criticize gun laws and even said the gun lobby doesn’t want “any background checking whatsoever” (a dubious claim), but then added that it’s still wrong for the left to “demonize” legal gun owners:
MSNBC Reports This story has Not been updated with additional video and quotes.
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