T-Squared: We the Texans
In 2024, we’ll be throwing the weight of The Texas Tribune behind listening closely to Texans about their lives and communities and how they engage in public life. Full Story
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Sewell Chan has been The Texas Tribune’s editor in chief since October 2021. During his tenure the Tribune won its first National Magazine Award and was a Pulitzer finalist and a Peabody finalist for the first time. 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 social studies from Harvard and a master's in political science from Oxford, where he studied on a British Marshall scholarship.
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Texas 2023: Our 25 most engaging stories this year
We came up with an “engagement score” to determine our most viewed and read articles of the year. Full Story
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T-Squared: The Texas Tribune has joined The Trust Project!
The Trust Project’s eight Trust Indicators are the first major global transparency standard for news. They include honesty, accuracy and fairness; owning up to mistakes; disclosure of our funding; and details on our journalists’ expertise. Full Story
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T-Squared: Emily Iazzetti is our new membership manager; Kassie Kelly is our next grants officer
Over 12,000 Texas Tribune members accounted for more than $1 million of the organization’s revenue this year — a milestone. Small and recurring donations make our work possible. Full Story
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Texas’ open records law is 50 years old — and routinely flouted
At the annual conference of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, two Republican lawmakers described how government officials fail to meet transparency requirements. Full Story
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![Kathy and Robert Dyer, of Paris, Texas, at the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas conference on Sept. 28. 2023. After their teenage son Graham died following an arrest, they fought for years to repeal the so-called dead-suspect loophole that had allowed state and local officials to withhold records of their son's death.]()
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T-Squared: Texas Tribune wins two national Edward R. Murrow Awards
We were recognized for breaking news coverage of the Uvalde school shooting and for overall excellence among large digital news organizations. Full Story
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T-Squared: Education coverage is at the core of our mission
Education is arguably the most important issue in Texas, as today’s students are tomorrow’s workforce and innovators. We are committed to expanding and deepening our education coverage. Full Story
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T-Squared: Welcoming new fellows in photojournalism, reporting and marketing
They’re joining us thanks to partnerships between the Poynter Institute and Stand Together Fellowships, The New York Times and the National Center on Disability and Journalism, and Google News Initiative and the Institute for Nonprofit News. Full Story
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T-Squared: The regular 2023 legislative session is behind us. We were with Texans the whole way.
The Tribune’s editor-in-chief on covering the 2023 Texas legislative session. Full Story
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T-Squared: Matt Adams, Dan Keemahill and Carlos Nogueras join The Texas Tribune
Adams will oversee audience growth and engagement. Keemahill is a data journalist working on investigative stories. Nogueras will be our first Permian Basin reporter, based in Midland-Odessa. Full Story
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