List of Texas Tribune Reporters and Journalists

1. Sewell Chan

Designation Editor In Chief Author Bio Sewell Chan joined The Texas Tribune as editor in chief in October 2021. Previously he was a deputy managing editor and then the editorial page editor at the Los Angeles Times, where he oversaw coverage that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 2021. Chan worked at the New York Times from 2004 to 2018, as a metro reporter, Washington correspondent, deputy Op-Ed editor and international news editor. He began his career as a local reporter at the Washington Post in 2000. A child of immigrants, Chan was the first in his family to graduate from college. He has a degree in soci...al studies from Harvard and a master's in political science from Oxford, where he studied on a British Marshall scholarship. He serves on the boards of Columbia Journalism Review, Freedom House, Henry R. Luce Foundation, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Texas Lyceum. He was elected to the board of the Pulitzer Prizes in 2022 and joined the national judging panel of the Livingston Awards in 2023.more
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2. Jessica Huseman

Designation Author Author Bio No longer posting on this hell site. Find me on Threads, Instagram and Bluesky.
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3. Sarah Cahlan

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4. Matt Ewalt

Designation Senior Director Of Events And Live Journalism Author Bio Matt Ewalt joined The Texas Tribune as senior director of events and live journalism in March 2023. He previously worked at Chautauqua Institution in Western New York in various roles, including vice president and Emily and Richard Smucker Chair for Education and editor of The Chautauquan Daily. Serving alongside the Tribune's events team, Matt is responsible for the strategic vision and execution of the Tribune’s live journalism, which includes The Texas Tribune Festival and year-round events across Texas aimed at fostering civic engagement and democratic participation. He lives in Aust...in.more
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5. Carla Astudillo

Designation Senior Data Visuals Developer Author Bio Carla Astudillo is a senior data visuals developer with a focus on elections and political data. Before joining the Tribune in 2019, she was a data and interactive visuals journalist at NJ.com and The Star-Ledger in New Jersey, where she helped build a database of police use of force in the state as part of a 16-month investigative project. She earned a master’s degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida. Carla was born in Antofagasta, Chile and moved to the United States when... she was 7 years old. After brief stints in Texas and New Mexico, her family settled in Lakeland, Florida, where she grew up. She is based in Austin and speaks Spanish fluently.more
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6. Todd Wiseman

Designation Senior Editor For Video And Multimedia Author Bio Todd Wiseman was the senior editor for video and multimedia at The Texas Tribune, where he worked from 2010 to 2023. Todd previously worked at the Austin School of Film and Synthetic Pictures and interned for director Richard Linklater. At The Texas Tribune, Todd helped develop the “Stump Interrupted” series, which won a national Edward R. Murrow award. He also co-produced the award-winning documentary “Beyond The Wall.” A Fort Worth native, he graduated from the University of Southern California with a dual degree in film and English and is based in Austin.
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7. Ayan Mittra

Designation Senior Managing Editor Author Bio Ayan Mittra is the senior managing editor at The Texas Tribune. Ayan joined the Tribune after working more than 10 years at The Dallas Morning News and has built expertise in Texas politics. He spent his first seven years there as a copy editor. In 2008, he moved to the political desk, supervising the daily presentations and working with reporters in the field. He then worked as a night city editor, supervising the coverage of late-breaking news. He was also on the editing team for the 2009 and 2011 legislative sessions. A native of Beaumont, Ayan graduated with a journalism degree from the Un...iversity of Texas at Austin. He is based in the Austin area.more
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8. Jason Whitely

Designation Author Author Bio Senior Reporter @ WFAA | Host of Inside Texas Politics | Co-host of Y’all-itics Podcast ****@wfaa.com | Instagram: @jasonwhitely
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9. Jeremy Loudenback

Designation Author Author Bio Public policy, media, and sometimes music. Reporter with The Imprint: juvenile justice and child welfare
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10. Davis Winkie

Designation Author Author Bio @ArmyTimes sr. reporter || accountability, personnel, mil justice & investigations || Guard vet || former: @CNN, @UNCHistory, @VandyFootball || Views mine
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11. Evan Smith

Designation Co-founder And Senior Adviser Author Bio Evan Smith is a co-founder and senior adviser at The Texas Tribune, where he served as CEO from 2009 to 2022. He’s also a senior adviser at Emerson Collective, where he works closely with the leadership teams of nonprofit news organizations around the country. Previously he spent nearly 18 years at Texas Monthly, stepping down in August 2009 as the magazine’s president and editor in chief. Evan is also the host of “Overheard with Evan Smith,” a weekly half-hour interview program that airs on PBS stations around the country. A native of New York, he is a graduate of... Hamilton College and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.more
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12. José Olivares

Designation Author Author Bio Journalist. Mexicano. Lead Producer @theintercept. Previously: @TheTakeaway. Tips:
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13. Jinitzail Hernández

Designation Video Journalist Author Bio Jinitzail Hernández was a video journalist at The Texas Tribune from May 2022 through November 2023. She is interested in using video to tell immersive stories through the lives of the people affected by policy. Jini previously worked as the senior multimedia producer at CQ Roll Call in Washington, D.C., where she covered defense policy and politics through articles, podcasts and videos. Jini has also worked in Jerusalem as a press and policy fellow at The Media Line, a nonprofit American news agency. She graduated with a master's in journalism from Northwestern University and was award...ed the Deborah Orin Scholarship from the White House Correspondents' Association.more
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14. Ren Larson

Designation Data Journalist Author Bio Ren Larson was a data journalist at The Texas Tribune from March 2020 through December 2022. Before joining the Tribune, she reported on elections, immigration, environmental contamination and wildfires at The Arizona Republic. Her 2019 project
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15. David Leffler

Designation Author Author Bio David Leffler covers toxic chemical pollution and other environmental health issues for Public Health Watch. Reach him at ****@publichealthwatch.org. Follow him on Twitter at @DavidJLeffler.
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16. Alex Ford

Designation Designer/developer Author Bio Alex Ford was a designer/developer creating data visualizations for the Tribune. Previously, she was an interactive journalist at NBC News and a graphics fellow at Insider. A Baltimore native, Alex earned a political science degree at the University of Maryland.
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17. Evan L’roy

Designation Freelance Photojournalist Author Bio Evan L’Roy was a Poynter-Koch 2022-2023 fellow and a photographer at The Texas Tribune. He was a spring photography fellow in 2021 and a contract photo editor after graduating from the University of Texas with a radio-television-film degree. Raised in Dallas, Evan has worked as a cinematographer and photographer for Austin TV station KXAN, The Daily Texan and various commercial/film productions. With a focus on enterprise stories, Evan produced visual projects about the environment and homelessness in collaboration with Tribune reporters.
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18. Jeff Goodell

Designation Journalist Author Bio Jeff Goodell, an Austin-based journalist and a Rolling Stone contributing writer who has covered climate change for more than a decade, is the author of “The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet,” which Little, Brown is releasing July 11. This essay is adapted from the book, his seventh.
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19. Joe Timmerman

Designation Photojournalist Intern Author Bio Joe Timmerman was an Austin-based summer 2023 photography fellow. Joe graduated from Ohio University, where he earned degrees in visual communication and journalism. Previously, Joe interned at the Cincinnati Enquirer and worked as a contract photojournalist and writer for The Columbus Dispatch and EcoWatch.
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20. Kim Krisberg | Public Health Watch

Designation Author Author Bio Public health journalist. Words: @pubhealthwatch, @nationshealth, @TexasTribune, @TPRNews, @keranews, @PublicHealthMag. Love Molly Ivins. Retweet≠endorsement.
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21. Roxanna Asgarian

Designation Law And Courts Reporter Author Bio Roxanna Asgarian was the law and courts reporter for the Texas Tribune from 2022 to 2023. Previously, she covered the child welfare and criminal justice systems as an independent reporter in Houston. Her first book, “We Were Once A Family: Love, Death, and Child Removal in America,” a deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in March 2023. A native of Las Vegas, Nevada, Roxanna got her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and her master’s degree from t...he Craig Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York. Roxanna is based in Dallas.more
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22. Marilyn W. Thompson

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23. Zach Despart

Designation Politics Reporter Author Bio Zach Despart is a politics reporter for The Texas Tribune. He investigates power — who wields it, how and to what ends — through the lens of Texas government. He has extensively covered the Uvalde school shooting, including a groundbreaking investigation on the role the gunman’s rifle played in the disastrous police response. He previously covered Harris County for the Houston Chronicle, where he reported on corruption, elections, disaster preparedness and the region’s recovery from Hurricane Harvey. An upstate New York native, he received his bachelor’s degree in... political science and film from the University of Vermont.more
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24. Pooja Salhotra

Designation General Assignment Reporter Author Bio Pooja Salhotra joined the Tribune in 2022 as its first-ever East Texas reporter based in Lufkin, where she covered a vast region that borders three states and stretches north to Texarkana and south to Beaumont. In late 2023, she relocated to Austin as a general assignment reporter to cover issues ranging from breaking news to developments in state agencies. Pooja was born and raised in the Houston area and graduated from Yale University. She also holds a master’s in fine arts from NYU’s journalism school.
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25. María Méndez

Designation Service And Engagement Reporter Author Bio María Méndez works on efforts to better connect with Texans and writes explainers and guides. She strives to answer Texans’ questions about politics and public policy and to help them find resources. Previously, she reported on public education at the Austin American-Statesman, border and business issues at Texas Public Radio and politics and breaking news at The Dallas Morning News. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, was an engagement fellow at The Texas Tribune and worked for The Daily Texan, UT’s student newspaper. She was born in Mexico, grew up... in Austin and speaks Spanish. She is based in Austin.more
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26. Iris Dimmick

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27. Patrick Svitek

Designation Political Reporter Author Bio Patrick Svitek is the primary political correspondent for The Texas Tribune. Patrick covers elections, state leaders, the Legislature and political trends across the state. He previously worked for the Houston Chronicle's Austin bureau. He graduated in 2014 from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. He is originally from Fort Wayne, Indiana and is based in San Antonio.
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28. Jayme Lozano Carver

Designation Reporter/south Plains And Panhandle Author Bio Jayme Lozano Carver is the Tribune’s first Lubbock-based reporter, covering the South Plains and Panhandle through a partnership with Report for America. Jayme previously worked for Texas Tech Public Media, Lubbock’s NPR station, where she spearheaded “Rural Healthcare: The Other Texas Drought,” a series for PBS’ “Frontline” on rural hospital closures in Texas. She also covered a broad range of topics for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, including climate change, agriculture, entertainment and health care. Born in Levelland, Jayme is a native of the Sout...h Plains area and studied at South Plains College and Texas Tech University. She loves to talk about her cats, horror movies and pro wrestling.more
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29. Joshua Kaplan

Designation Author Author Bio Reporter @propublica | Email me at ****@propublica.org
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30. Jolie Mccullough

Designation Reporter Author Bio Jolie McCullough was a reporter at The Texas Tribune from 2015 to 2023. She began as a data visualization journalist and then reported on criminal justice policy, ranging from policing and courts to prisons and the death penalty. She joined the Tribune from the Albuquerque Journal, her hometown newspaper. She previously worked at the Arizona Republic and is a graduate of Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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31. Natalia Contreras

Designation Votebeat Texas Reporter Author Bio Natalia Contreras covers election administration and voting access for Votebeat in partnership with The Texas Tribune. She has covered a range of topics as a community journalist including local government, public safety, immigration and social issues. Natalia previously reported for the Austin American-Statesman, focusing on impacts of government policies on communities of color. Natalia previously worked at the Indianapolis Star, where she helped launch the first Spanish-language newsletter, and at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. She was born in Tampico, Tamaulipas in Mexico and grew up in ...Corpus Christi, Texas. She is based in Austin.more
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32. Justine Mcdaniel

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33. Maria Sacchetti

Designation Author Author Bio @WashingtonPost National #immigration, DHS reporter. Reportera, cubro migración ****@washpost.com
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34. Nadra Nittle

Designation Author Author Bio Education reporter @19thnews.
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35. Alejandra Martinez

Designation Environmental Reporter Author Bio Alejandra Martinez joined the Tribune in the fall of 2022 as a Dallas-based environmental reporter. She was previously an accountability reporter at KERA, where she began as a Report for America corps member and then covered Dallas City Hall. Before that, she worked as an associate producer at WLRN, South Florida’s public radio station. Alejandra studied journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, and interned at KUT and NPR's Latino USA. She's a native of the Aldine area of Harris County and speaks fluent Spanish.
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36. Sneha Dey

Designation Education Reporter Author Bio Sneha Dey is an education reporter for The Texas Tribune. She covers pathways from education to employment and the accessibility of postsecondary education in Texas, with an eye on college readiness, community colleges and career and technical training. Prior to joining the Tribune, she had stints at NPR’s Education Desk and Chalkbeat. Sneha is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She grew up in New York and is based in Austin.
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37. Andrea Drusch

Author Bio Covering local govt & politics in San Antonio & Bexar County for the @SAReport. ****@sareport.org
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38. Brittany Shammas

Designation Author Author Bio @washingtonpost reporter, Florida defender. Past lives @miaminewtimes @sunsentinel, @ndn. Reach me at ****@washpost.com.
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39. Raquel Torres

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40. Uriel J. García

Designation Immigration Reporter Author Bio Uriel J. García is an immigration reporter based in El Paso. Before joining the Tribune in 2021, he worked at the Arizona Republic where he covered police violence and immigration enforcement. He started his journalism career at the Santa Fe New Mexican where he covered the city's immigrant community and criminal justice issues. Originally from Mexico and a native Spanish speaker, Uriel grew up in Phoenix and graduated from Arizona State University.
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41. Joshua Fechter

Designation Urban Affairs Reporter Author Bio Joshua Fechter is the Dallas-based urban affairs reporter for The Texas Tribune, covering policy — including housing affordability, housing and property taxes, evictions, policing and transportation — and politics in Texas' major metropolitan areas. Before joining the Tribune in August 2021, Joshua covered City Hall for the San Antonio Express-News. He holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin.
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42. Alejandro Serrano

Designation General Assignment Reporter Author Bio Alejandro Serrano is a general assignment reporter for The Texas Tribune. Before joining the Tribune in the fall of 2022, he reported on a variety of topics for the Houston Chronicle, including education and the Houston Independent School District. The Long Island, New York native received his bachelor's degree in journalism from Northeastern University. He is based in Houston and speaks fluent Spanish.
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43. Erin Douglas

Designation Climate Reporter Author Bio Erin Douglas was the climate reporter for The Texas Tribune from 2020 through 2023 where she covered the impacts of climate change, including extreme heat, drought and hurricanes. She reported on the toll flooding takes on mental health, investigated a chemical fire at an industrial facility, and covered the collapse of Texas’ power grid that led to widespread blackouts across the state. Her coverage of the Texas blackouts in 2021 was recognized by the Investigative Reporters and Editors and the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing. Erin was previously a business and econom...y reporter at the Houston Chronicle where she covered labor, energy and the environment. She studied journalism and economics at Colorado State University, and her first newsroom job was interning at The Denver Post, her hometown newspaper.more
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44. Robert Downen

Designation Reporter Author Bio Robert Downen is a reporter covering democracy and the threats to it, including extremism, disinformation and conspiracies. Before joining the Tribune in 2022, he worked for five years at the Houston Chronicle. As a Hearst Media fellow, he developed what would become "Abuse of Faith," a landmark investigation into child sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention that prompted a Department of Justice investigation. Before coming to Texas, Robert was a business reporter in New York's capital region, and the managing editor of six newspapers in his home state of Illinois. He is a 2...014 graduate of Eastern Illinois University.more
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45. Nick Miroff

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46. Alex Horton

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47. James Barragán

Designation Politics Reporter Author Bio James Barragán is a politics reporter for The Texas Tribune with a focus on accountability reporting. He is on leave during the 2023-24 academic year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. Prior to joining the Tribune, James worked as a statehouse reporter for The Dallas Morning News and had previous stints at the Austin American-Statesman and the Los Angeles Times. In 2021, James was a finalist for the Toner Prize for Excellence in Local Reporting for his coverage of Texas politics during the COVID-19 pandemic. A Southern California native, James received his bachelor’s degree in history... from UCLA. He is based in Austin and is a native Spanish speaker.more
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48. Brian Lopez

Designation Public Education Reporter Author Bio Brian Lopez is a public education reporter, covering how policy and politics affect Texas’ K-12 public education system and the nearly 5.5 million kids enrolled in public schools. Before landing at the Tribune in 2021, he was the Tarrant County reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Brian is a New York native but moved to Texas after high school. He graduated from The University of Texas at Arlington, is based in San Antonio and reports in both English and Spanish.
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49. Emily Foxhall

Designation Climate Reporter Author Bio Emily Foxhall is The Texas Tribune's climate reporter. She joined the Tribune as an energy reporter in December 2022, focused on the state’s transition to green energy, the reliability of the power grid and the environmental impact of electricity generation. Emily is based in Houston, where she grew up. After a stint as a Tribune student intern in 2012, she began her career at the Los Angeles Times and its community papers. She later worked at the Houston Chronicle where her environmental reporting uncovered the effects of climate change and pollution on the region. She won several Texas... Managing Editors awards and was part of the 2017 team that was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of Hurricane Harvey. Emily graduated from Yale University in 2013, where she studied English and was a Yale Journalism Scholar.more
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50. Eleanor Klibanoff

Designation Women’s Health Reporter Author Bio Eleanor Klibanoff is the women’s health reporter, based in Austin, where she covers abortion, maternal health care, gender-based violence and LGBTQ issues, among other topics. She started with the Tribune in 2021, and was previously with the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting in Louisville, where she reported, produced and hosted the Peabody-nominated podcast, “Dig.” Eleanor has worked at public radio stations in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Missouri, as well as NPR, and her work has aired on “All Things Considered,” “Morning Edition” and &ldquo...;Here & Now.” She is conversational in Spanish. Eleanor was born in Philadelphia and raised in Atlanta, and attended The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.more
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51. Karen Brooks Harper

Designation Health And Human Services Reporter Author Bio Karen Brooks Harper reports on the state budget and health and human services. An alumna of the University of Missouri-Columbia Journalism School, Karen arrived in Texas in 1995 to join the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, spent several years in Laredo and Mexico covering immigration and the drug war for Knight-Ridder newspapers, and has covered Texas politics for more than two decades for news organizations including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Dallas Morning News and Reuters. She is based in Austin.
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52. Stephen Simpson

Designation Mental Health Reporter Author Bio Stephen Simpson is the mental health reporter, based in Austin, where he covers behavioral health in schools, treatment in the judicial system, substance abuse and the state mental health system, among other topics. He previously worked in his home state of Arkansas as a politics reporter, where he covered the state's Supreme Court, House of Representatives and correctional system for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Stephen's earliest career experiences include reporting and copy editing at The Jonesboro Sun and The Pine Bluff Commercial. He earned a degree in online and print journalism with a... minor in filmmaking from the University of Central Arkansas.more
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53. Jeremy Schwartz

Designation Reporter Author Bio Jeremy Schwartz has been an investigative reporter in Texas for nearly a decade, covering issues including voting rights and border security for the Austin American-Statesman and USA Today Network. His work has resulted in the overhaul of Texas' inspection process for farmworker housing, sparked Congressional investigations of a failed Department of Veterans Affairs research program and uncovered misleading border arrest and drug seizure statistics maintained by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Schwartz won the National Association of Hispanic Journalists' Latino Issues award for his 201...7 investigation into the political underrepresentation of Latinos in Texas cities and counties, and the Headliners Foundation of Texas Reporter of the Year award, among other honors. He previously served as Cox Newspapers' Latin America correspondent in Mexico City from 2005 to 2009, and before that, he covered the U.S. Border Patrol and immigration at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. He is based in Austin.more
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54. Alexa Ura

Designation Reporter Author Bio Alexa Ura reported for The Texas Tribune from 2013 to 2023. She covered the complex dynamics of race, ethnicity, wealth, poverty and power and how they are shaping the future of Texas and Texans, in the long and short term. Alexa started at the Tribune as a reporting intern before graduating from the University of Texas at Austin and joining the staff full time. Originally from Laredo on the Texas-Mexico border, she is a native Spanish speaker and is based in Austin.
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55. Miranda Suarez

Designation Author Author Bio Tarrant County accountability reporter @keranews! this account is no longer very active, but I still check DMs. email me at ****@kera.org ????❤️
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56. Arelis R. Herná

Designation Author Author Bio Periodista @washingtonpost | Texas Correspondent | briefly ???????? & ???????? | @aajajcamp leader | @nahj VP of Print | Boricua | hija de Arlene y David
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57. Elena Rivera

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58. Noah Alcala Bach

Designation Reporting Fellow Author Bio Noah Alcala Bach was a summer 2023 Austin-based reporting fellow. Before arriving at the Tribune, Noah was an intern in Brussels at Politico EU, a reporter for the Columbia Missourian, an intern at the San Antonio Current and a contributing correspondent for the San Antonio Express-News.
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59. Danya Pérez

Designation Author Author Bio Diverse communities reporter for @Hou_Landing. Previously @ @ExpressNews, @HoustonChron, @monitornews & @borderzine. She/her/ella. ****@houstonlanding.org ????
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60. Jasper Craven

Designation Investigative Reporter Author Bio Jasper Craven, an independent investigative reporter covering military and veterans’ issues for outlets including The New York Times Magazine, the Intercept, the Atlantic and the New Republic, is a co-author of “Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans Affairs.” This year he was a finalist for a Livingston Award for national reporting for an investigation he wrote for Mother Jones.
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61. Carlos Nogueras Ramos

Designation Permian Basin Reporter Author Bio Carlos Nogueras Ramos is a regional reporter based in Odessa. Carlos joined The Texas Tribune in 2023 in partnership with Report for America. Carlos tells the stories of Texas from the vast energy-rich Permian Basin region. Before the Tribune, Carlos spent time in Philadelphia writing about local politics, including the city’s 100th mayoral election. A Spanish speaker, Carlos was one of the few Latino reporters on the campaign trail, covering the most expensive primary election to date in Philly. He is a proud Puerto Rico native, born and raised in Cayey. He studied at Berklee College of... Music in Boston and the University of Puerto Rico.more
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62. Neelam Bohra

Designation Disability Reporting Fellow Author Bio Neelam Bohra is a disability reporting fellow, covering accessibility issues affecting Texans. Through a partnership with the National Center on Disability and Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and ​​The New York Times, Neelam will spend the 2023-24 fellowship term based in Austin. She has previously reported on labor policy for Politico, national culture for CNN Digital, and covered abortion, COVID-19 and the 2021 winter storm as a past fellow for The Texas Tribune. A graduate of The University of Texas at Austin and a native of McKinney, Texas, Neelam spent th...e last year reporting on disability and general breaking news for the Times’ National Desk.more
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63. Céilí Doyle

Designation Author Author Bio Covers the suburbs & rural communities @Hou_Landing ???? Past words @dispatchalerts. Alum @report4america, @miamistudent. Chicago native.
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64. Matt Sledge

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65. Eileen Grench

Designation Author Author Bio Public Safety @Hou_Landing | Olympian bilingüe???????????? | @columbiajourn????+ @OhioState???? | Formerly @thedailybeast, @thecityny, Global Migration Project
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66. Jess Huff

Designation East Texas Reporter Author Bio Jess Huff joined the Tribune in 2023 and is based in Lufkin, Texas. She grew up in Utah and has also lived in Arizona and the Netherlands. Her latest adventure brought her to East Texas where she worked for The Lufkin Daily News, leading the publication to numerous awards for investigative reporting in the region. Jess attended Northern Arizona University on a debate scholarship and fell in love with the journalism program after a course on alternative storytelling devices. Her work has been published in the Arizona Daily Sun, The Associated Press, The Lufkin Daily News, Capital & Main and... a number of local outlets across Texas.more
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67. Monique Welch

Designation Author Author Bio Diverse Communities Reporter @Hou_Landing Past: @HoustonChron @TB_Times, Tips➡️****@houstonlanding.org Goucher College Alumna. Baltimore ➡️ Tampa➡️Houston
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68. Asher Lehrer-small

Designation Author Author Bio Houston ISD reporter @Hou_Landing. Formerly @The74. Stories also in @guardian, @BostonGlobe, @MiamiHerald and more. Tips/questions: ****@houstonlanding.org
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69. Ali Juell

Designation Fellow Reporter Author Bio Ali Juell was an Austin-based reporting fellow in 2023. She was raised in Hawaii and northern California. Before joining the Tribune, Ali was an editorial intern at The Austin Chronicle and a senior reporter for The Daily Texan covering state and campus politics.
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70. Lomi Kriel

Designation Reporter Author Bio Lomi Kriel is a reporter with the ProPublica-Texas Tribune investigative unit. Previously she was a reporter at the Houston Chronicle covering immigration, often focused on the Texas border. Six months before the Trump administration announced its family separation policy, Kriel uncovered how the government was secretly using the prosecution of illegal entry to detain parents until deportation and send children to federal shelters. Her stories resulted in the release of one mother and helped spur a pivotal American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit largely ending the practice. She received the 201...9 George Polk Award for national reporting, in part for her continued work on family separations. Kriel, who was born and raised in South Africa, immigrated to the United States in 1998. She has also worked as a Central American correspondent for Thomson Reuters and a criminal justice reporter for the San Antonio Express-News. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and Columbia University and speaks Afrikaans and Spanish.more
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71. Vianna Davila

Designation Reporter, Propublica/texas Tribune Investigative Unit Author Bio Vianna Davila is a reporter with the ProPublica/Texas Tribune investigative unit. Previously, she was the editor of The Seattle Times’ Project Homeless initiative, which examines the causes and effects of homelessness in the Seattle region. She began with the project in 2017 as a reporter, before becoming editor in 2019. Her work with the team was recognized by the Solutions Journalism Network as some of the best solutions reporting of 2018. She previously reported for the San Antonio Express-News, where over 13 years she produced stories on city politics, regional transportation and cri...minal justice. Her six-part project “The Next Million” explored gentrification, affordable housing, changing demographics and other urban issues in San Antonio, winning the Best of the West 2017 Journalism Contest for online presentation. She graduated from Rice University with a B.A. in English and master’s of journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, with a specialty in documentary film. Her master’s thesis film, “In His Blood,” about the lives of overnight television news videographers, was named the best documentary short at the 2009 San Antonio Film Festival. She has previously taught journalism at the University of Washington, Texas State University and Texas A&M University-San Antonio. She is a San Antonio native and a 10th-generation Texan. She is based in Austin. (Photo: Bettina Hansen, The Seattle Times)more
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72. Perla Trevizo

Designation Reporter, Propublica/texas Tribune Investigative Unit Author Bio Perla Trevizo is a Mexican-American reporter born in Ciudad Juárez and raised across the border in El Paso, Texas, where she began her journalism career. Trevizo spent more than 10 years covering immigration and border issues in Tennessee and Arizona before joining the Houston Chronicle as an environmental reporter. She has written from nearly a dozen countries, from African refugee camps to remote Guatemalan villages, with the goal of broadening readers’ understanding of the global issues that impact the local communities where she has worked. Her work has earned her national and... state awards including the Dori J. Maynard Award for Diversity in Journalism, French-American Foundation Immigration Journalism Award, and a national Edward R. Murrow for a story done in collaboration with Arizona Public Media. She was also honored as the 2019 Arizona Journalist of the Year by the Arizona Newspaper Association. She is based in El Paso.more
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73. Kiah Collier

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74. Justin Elliott

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75. Alex Mierjeski

Designation Author Author Bio Research, ProPublica
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76. Lexi Churchill

Designation Research Reporter, Propublica/texas Tribune Investigative Unit Author Bio Lexi Churchill was most recently a Scripps Howard research fellow at ProPublica, where she published an investigation exposing how the Trump administration’s quick and quiet crackdown on Idaho’s Medicaid procedures created new red tape that kept children with special needs and the state’s poorest residents from maintaining insurance. She also led reporting efforts for the “Sins of Omission” project and has been involved in ProPublica's coronavirus coverage over the last few weeks. Before joining ProPublica, Lexi interned at several organizations, including CNBC a...nd the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Lexi will report to Katie Zavadski, the research editor at ProPublica.more
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77. Lisa Song

Designation Author Author Bio Environment/climate reporter @ProPublica. Formerly @InsideClimate. Cartoon me by the talented @dizdizh. Pro-cats, anti-carrots.
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78. Cassandra Jaramillo

Designation Author Author Bio Not really checking X. Just here to retweet my friends. Reporter @propublica. Send news tips on signal: 469-606-9665 or ****@propublica.org
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79. Jacob Sanchez

Designation Author Author Bio Jacob Sanchez was a newsletters fellow for the Tribune in 2016. At St. Edward’s University, he studied political science and journalism. Previously, Sanchez was an editorial intern at The Texas Observer, and an intern for The Quay County Sun and Clovis News Journal. Sanchez was the print editor-in-chief at Hilltop Views, the student newspaper at St. Edward’s. Sanchez is from the small West Texas town of Fort Stockton.
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80. Rachel Behrndt

Designation Author Author Bio Holding government accountable @FortWorthReport I talk about Fort Worth, Tarrant County and baking - not necessarily in that order
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81. Jessica Priest

Designation Engagement Reporter, Propublica/texas Tribune Investigative Unit Author Bio Jessica Priest is an engagement reporter on The Texas Tribune/ProPublica Investigative Initiative. She’s previously worked for the Fort Worth Report, USA TODAY out of the Austin-American Statesman newsroom, the Victoria Advocate and the Temple Daily Telegram. She is a Texan whose work has often made an impact — be it local officials in Victoria pursuing funding for mental health after she highlighted a gap in services or the state’s highest criminal court granting a death row inmate a new trial after she detailed a prosecutor’s conflicts of interest. Jessica also has ex...perience reporting on local government and the environment. After she exposed questionable hirings and payments at a port and later a water district in another part of the state, both public entities underwent reforms. After she showed the effects of companies’ air and water pollution on the Gulf Coast, residents organized and regulators took action.more
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82. William Melhado

Designation Reporter Author Bio William Melhado is an Austin-based general assignment reporter. He originally joined the Tribune in 2022 as a Poynter-Koch fellow. He previously worked as a staff writer at the Santa Fe Reporter, an alt-weekly newspaper in New Mexico. Before pursuing a career in journalism, William worked as an educator for five years and taught science at a public high school in the Bronx, New York and taught at international schools in Tanzania and Nepal. A native of Boulder, Colorado, William graduated from Middlebury College with a bachelor's degree in chemistry and earned a master’s in secondary sci...ence education at CUNY Lehman College.more
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83. Drew Harwell

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84. Cat Zakrzewski

Author Bio @washingtonpost national tech policy reporter. Previously: @WSJVC + @MedillSchool Threads: @cqzakrz Signal: (215) 300-8285
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85. Faiz Siddiqui

Designation Author Author Bio Tech reporter @washingtonpost. Working on a book about Elon Musk, MAXIMUM HUBRIS, for St. Martin's. https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser | DMs open, on Signal at 513-659-9944
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86. Robert Barnes

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87. Victoria Bisset

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88. Perry Stein

Author Bio Washington Post reporter covering the Justice Department
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89. Mitchell Ferman

Designation Energy And Economy Reporter Author Bio Mitchell Ferman covered energy and the economy from 2020 to 2022, based in Houston. Before joining the Tribune he was a reporter for The Monitor in McAllen, where he covered cross-border trade, politics and the city of McAllen. He also regularly freelanced from the Rio Grande Valley and beyond for The New York Times, Texas Monthly and Reuters, writing about topics including the family separation crisis and unexpected consequences of the border wall. He graduated from the University of Missouri.
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90. Dylan Baddour

Designation Author Author Bio Covering Texas for @InsideClimate News. Previously reporting from Colombia for WSJ, WaPo, Atlantic, Reuters y más. TX born, likes to garden
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91. Martha Pskowski

Designation Author Author Bio Texas reporter @insideclimate | former El Paso Times, freelance in Mexico | running/cycling nerd
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92. Caroline Kitchener

Designation Author Author Bio I cover abortion for @washingtonpost. she/her. ****@washpost.com, DM for Signal
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93. Lauren Mcgaughy

Designation Author Author Bio Investigative reporter & editor @NPR & @KUT's Texas Newsroom • Ex-@dallasnews @houstonchron @NOLAnews • FOIA nerd • hoya | who dat • she | her ****@kut.org
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94. Luz Moreno-lozano

Designation Author Author Bio city hall reporter @KUT 90.5 | previously @statesman | @TAMU former student ???????? | breakfast taco ???? snob from the 210
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95. Jeff Gammage

Designation Author Author Bio Immigration reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Author China Ghosts. Pulitzer Prize winner. Direct 215-854-4906 and ****@inquirer.com
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96. Ximena Conde

Designation Author Author Bio Reporter @PhillyInquirer. Past: @WHYY @WPR @RIPR. DM or email ****@inquirer.com
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97. Nick Parker

Designation Author Author Bio Editor for @washingtonpost. Got to say and mean "Stop the presses" once. Past: @factal, @sltrib, @deseretnews. "Howdy" use unironic.
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98. Matthew Watkins

Designation Managing Editor For News And Politics Author Bio Matthew Watkins is managing editor of news and politics, overseeing the day-to-day planning for news coverage. He began working at the Tribune in 2015 and previously served as a reporter, breaking news editor and politics editor. He also worked as a reporter at The Dallas Morning News and The Eagle in Bryan-College Station. He graduated from Texas A&M University and lives in Austin, where he grew up.
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99. Andy Alford

Designation Director Of Editorial Recruitment, Training And Career Development Author Bio Andy Alford joined the Tribune as director of editorial recruitment, training and career development in March 2022 after a 24-year run at the Austin American-Statesman, where she rose from reporter to assistant metro editor, metro editor, senior editor and then managing editor. As managing editor since 2018, she oversaw a newsroom of more than 60 journalists; a near-doubling of digital subscriptions; and award-winning coverage that prompted the Texas Managing Editors to recognize the Statesman as Texas newspaper of the year for 2013, 2014 and 2016. Born in Dallas, Andy enrolled at Florida A&...amp;M University to study engineering, but later found her calling in journalism, her major after she transferred to the University of Houston.more
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100. Chuck Lindell

Designation Interim Politics Editor Author Bio Chuck Lindell worked for The Texas Tribune in 2023 as the Saturday editor and as interim politics editor. His career includes 33 years at the Austin American-Statesman, where he reported on politics and legal issues and previously worked as Washington, DC correspondent, assistant metro editor and copy editor. Chuck has also worked for newspapers in Milwaukee and Green Bay, Wisconsin.
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