Houston Chronicle Reporter Fired for Moonlighting as Stripper
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Sarah Tressler, the Texas journalist outed this week for working as a society reporter for the Houston Chronicle by day and as a stripper by night, has been fired by the newspaper.
Tressler confirmed that she was fired in an interview with ABC News in which she said the newspaper let her go for not having told her supervisors about her off-duty dancing.
A rival newspaper took care of that task earlier this week; the Houston Press, after discovering a blog Tressler kept about her work as a stripper, published an article about her double life.
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I'm not convinced that she didn't want to be "outed" to make for a better story (she tweeted pictures of her face and listed her name as Sarah Tress, which is just an "ler" short of her real name), but I still think it's ridiculous that she was fired for working as a stripper.
Here's her
twitter feed and her
Diary of an Angry Stripper blog. It's not written like something that you'd expect from a reporter at a major newspaper, but since it's her personal blog and isn't written under her real name, I don't think that's really a fair standard to judge it by.