T-Squared: Tickets for The Texas Tribune Festival are on sale now
Join us in Austin from Sept. 22-24 for our biggest and best ideas weekend ever. The 30 speakers we’re announcing today are only a hint of what we have planned. Full Story
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T-Squared: Jayme Lozano is joining us as a Lubbock-based regional reporter
She will cover the Panhandle and South Plains through Report for America. She previously reported for Texas Tech Public Media. Full Story
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T-Squared: We won our first-ever awards from Texas Managing Editors
The Texas Tribune was recognized, along with ProPublica and NBC News, for coverage of carbon monoxide poisoning during the 2021 winter storm. Full Story
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T-Squared: Abby Livingston, our Washington bureau chief, is moving on
A pillar of our political coverage since 2014, Abby has covered three presidential administrations, four federal election cycles and innumerable members of Congress. Full Story
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![Abby Livingston moderated “Puddle, Wave, Tsunami, Sharknado” panel with speakers Liesl Hickey, Ali Lapp, Dave Wasserman, and David Weigel at The Texas Tribune Festival on Sept. 28, 2018.]()
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T-Squared: The Tribune is expanding to cover more of Texas
We’re hiring reporters to cover the Panhandle/South Plains and East Texas, along with a regional editor. We hope to also place staff in the Rio Grande Valley and the Permian Basin. Full Story
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T-Squared: Jinitzail Hernández is our new video journalist
A Chicago native, she joins us from CQ Roll Call, where she produced articles, podcasts and videos on public policy, including defense and national security. Full Story
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T-Squared: Texas Tribune will host yearlong Scripps Howard Foundation fellows in data visuals and multimedia
Fabiana Chaparro will join the multimedia team, and Caroline Covington will join the data visuals team. Full Story
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T-Squared: The Texas Tribune and ProPublica share IRE Award for coverage of 2021 winter storm
“The team’s coverage of a large winter storm was not just hard-hitting accountability journalism, it was public service at its best,” judges for the Investigative Reporters and Editors award wrote. Full Story
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T-Squared: Alex Powers is The Texas Tribune’s new analytics and data manager
He will work with the product team to better understand our audience, our coverage and our big strategic opportunities for the years to come. Full Story
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T-Squared: Sneha Dey joins us as general assignment reporter
A persistent, meticulous and empathetic reporter, Dey was a spring 2022 fellow at The Texas Tribune. Before that, she was an intern at the Chicago Sun-Times, NPR, Chalkbeat Chicago and City Limits. Full Story
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T-Squared: RevLab at The Texas Tribune will co-host a three-day Independent News Sustainability Summit in October
RevLab at The Texas Tribune is partnering with LION Publishers and the News Revenue Hub to host the first Independent News Sustainability Summit from Oct. 27-29 in Austin. Full Story
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T-Squared: Save the date! The Texas Tribune Festival is Sept. 22-24 — in person, in Austin, just as you remember it
We cannot wait to see you there. With elections looming and issues aboil, we have our best-ever program planned. Full Story
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T-Squared: María Méndez is joining The Texas Tribune as service and engagement reporter
She will connect readers with resources, demystify politics and public policy and look for ways to reach Texans whose questions often go unheard. Full Story
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T-Squared: Our newsroom leadership team
Andy Alford, Bobby Blanchard, Darla Cameron, Ayan Mittra, Matthew Watkins and I are ready to take The Texas Tribune’s journalism to new heights. Full Story
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T-Squared: Zach Despart is joining The Texas Tribune as a politics reporter
A dogged accountability journalist, Despart will help center our political coverage on ordinary Texans and expose failures of governance and abuses of power. Full Story
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T-Squared: Ross Ramsey, our executive editor and co-founder, will retire on May 1 after more than four decades in journalism
A beloved reporter and columnist who knows more about Texas politics than just about anyone alive, he’s been instrumental to the Tribune’s operations and evolution. No him, no us. Our success is his legacy. Full Story
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![Ross Ramsey moderates the “Fade to Blue” panel with guests Rodney Anderson, John Bucy, KP George, Larry Gonzalez and Erin Zweiner at The Texas Tribune Festival on Sept. 27, 2019.]()
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T-Squared: We want to hear from you. Take our reader survey.
This survey will help us better serve and understand our readers across Texas and beyond. Full Story
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T-Squared: Pu Ying Huang is The Texas Tribune’s next photo editor
Huang is an accomplished photojournalist who has built an impressive body of work in Texas and Latin America. Full Story
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T-Squared: Jessica Priest joins The Texas Tribune as engagement reporter
A graduate of Sam Houston State University, Priest has worked in newsrooms in Temple, Victoria and Fort Worth. Full Story
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T-Squared: Allyson Waller is The Texas Tribune’s next newsletter writer
She moves from the Tribune’s editorial team to our audience team, where she will take charge of our flagship email newsletter, The Brief. Full Story
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