Reporter by day... stripper at night: The society writer at conservative newspaper whose job as exotic dancer was outed by rival

New job: Sarah Tressler, 30, has landed a new journalism job after being fired last year by the Houston Chronicle

A conservative Houston newspaper is at the centre of scandal after it was revealed one of its reporters has been working overtime - as a stripper.



Sarah Tressler, 29, began writing for the Houston Chronicle's society pages last April.



But her double life has apparently brought some unwanted attention for the media outlet after a rival newspaper brought her story to light.



Richard Connelly, reporting for the Houston Press, shamed Miss Tressler and her colleagues at the Chronicle with an expose about the brunette's thinly-veiled late-night life as an exotic dancer.



As Connelly reports, Miss Tressler keeps a Facebook, Twitter profile and blog using the pseudonym 'Angry Stripper'.



Photos of the dancer posing provocatively in lingerie and six-inch heels are scattered amongst her social networks, which have been locked since the story gained attention.



A description on her Facebook fan page is frank and forward.



'I strip for crazy people and then write about it so we can laugh at them TOGETHER. That's love, people,' she writes, noting interests including 'Brass poles, tiny muscles, money, and the perfectly polite conversation of your choosing.'

Her mission? '$20 a song, even if I'm not dancing,' she writes.



According to Miss Tressler's LinkedIn profile, she has a bachelor's degree from the University of Houston, where she works as an adjunct professor.



The profile also states she has a master's degree in journalism from New York University, and has worked as a freelance reporter for publications including: Us Weekly, L.A. City Beat and GLOSS Magazine.



That may come as a surprise to those who read her blog, 'Diary of an Angry Stripper'.

Musings about the writer's daily dalliances, customers' irksome requests, fetishes and late-night hook-ups with at least one recognisable name - actor Jeremy Piven - earn column inches on the quippy site.

Strike a pose: Prior to her stripper job being exposed, Tressler had posted several photos on her Facebook page and Twitter about it

A January 1 post, entitled 'The 10-Hour Day Yields an Icky Fetish', for example, recounts a night's work, in which she 'pulled down' $750 in 10 hours.



'I also had a run-in with one of my least favorite of the weird fetishes: guys who like to have their nipples, um ... bothered,' she brazenly writes.

The eyebrow-raising excerpt continues: 'Foot suckers aside, the nipple guys freak me out the most. I personally hate it when guys try to reach out and rub or tweak mine; getting a dude who likes to have his ... ew ... stroked or pulled or WHATever, gawd, it's so gross. Sorry. And just kind of bumping up against the general area outside the shirt is never enough. They aren't ashamed to lift their shirts up and bare their man-nips, which, incidentally, are usually longer than what may be considered normal, the result of which I can only imagine must be from sexual apparatuses sold at stores like Nasty Pig on W. 19th in Chelsea.'

Buttoned up: Sarah Tressler advertises herself as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston who holds a master's degree in journalism from NYU, on LinkedIn

In addition to her personal literary endeavours, sources told the Houston Press Miss Tressler is now full-time at the Chronicle.

Former Houston Chronicle editor Kyrie O'Connor - who now works at the organisation's sister paper in San Antonio, told the Press she knew 'Sarah Tressler as a highly competent freelancer' and understood 'she may be on staff now'.

But according to the Press, Miss Tressler's nightlife work, and thinly-veiled attempt to conceal her identity, has editors at the Chronicle reeling.



A source said: 'Her fellow Chronicle employees have found out and they're furious. Furious because she barely bothers to conceal her identity and they're worried about the reaction from the "ladies who lunch" when they inevitably find out that they've been hosting an active stripper at their benefits.'

Furthermore, according to Connelly, when Miss Tressler is not writing for the laced-up newspaper, her blog serves as little more than a brass attempt to secure a book deal with ruminations on her offbeat lifestyle.

'[Chronicle employees are] furious because she "flaunts" her "stripper money" around the office in the form of expensive designer clothes and handbags,' according to the Press. 'And furious because the Chron staff feels like she's just using them as fodder for a future roman a clef.'