T-Squared: Alejandro Serrano joins us as a general assignment reporter
A graduate of Northeastern University, Serrano has reported for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Houston Chronicle. He’ll remain based in Houston. Full Story
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.
A graduate of Northeastern University, Serrano has reported for the San Francisco Chronicle and the Houston Chronicle. He’ll remain based in Houston. Full Story
Yuriko will work as a designer-developer to report and create engaging interactive stories about Texas. Full Story
The Tribune also shared a national Edward R. Murrow Award with ProPublica and Mountain State Spotlight for a series of articles on cancer-causing air pollution. Full Story
Allison, who served as a Medical Service Corps officer in the U.S. Army from 2011 to 2018, is joining the Tribune through a partnership with Military Veterans in Journalism. Full Story
Alejandro will serve as education and urban affairs editor, and Brandon as news editor. Full Story
A six-year newsroom veteran, Audience Director Bobby Blanchard is now our chief audience officer and a member of the Tribune’s senior management team. Full Story
A former Tribune reporting fellow, Choi previously worked at Politico, where he covered energy and climate and wrote a daily energy newsletter. Full Story
In an interview with The Texas Tribune, the Roman Catholic prelate cited the school shooting in Uvalde, an intensified narcotics trade and the deaths of 53 migrants in a tractor-trailer in San Antonio. He urged comprehensive immigration reform. Full Story
Pooja has worked at Chalkbeat, CNN and NPR. Based in Lufkin, she will report from a vast and diverse region that borders on three states. Full Story
Of Texas’ 254 counties, 27 no longer have a newspaper. Loss of local news coverage has been associated with higher levels of mistrust, misinformation and malfeasance. Only California and New Jersey have lost more newspaper journalists, relative to population. Full Story