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Evan Smith

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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.

Past Contributions

  • TribuneFest: All Transportation is Local

    By Evan Smith

    At the Trib's Oct. 17 symposium on transportation at Southern Methodist University, Aman Batheja sat down with Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins; Tarrant County Commissioner Gary Fickes; John Langmore, vice chairman of Austin's Capitol Metropolitan Transportation Authority board; and former U.S. Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, chief of public engagement for VIA Metropolitan Transit in San Antonio. Full Story 

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  • TribuneFest: Talking to TxDOT

    By Evan Smith

    At the Trib's Oct. 17 symposium on transportation at Southern Methodist University, Aman Batheja sat down with Ted Houghton, chairman of the Texas Transportation Commission, and Phil Wilson, executive director of the Texas Department of Transportation. Full Story 

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  • TribuneFest: Transportation and the 83rd Legislature

    By Evan Smith

    At the Trib's Oct. 17 symposium on transportation at Southern Methodist University, I sat down with four members of the House Transportation Committee: Chairman Larry Phillips, R-Sherman, and state Reps. Cindy Burkett, R-Sunnyvale, Linda Harper-Brown, R-Irving, and Joe Pickett, D-El Paso. Full Story 

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  • TribWeek: In Case You Missed It

    By Evan Smith

    Aaronson on uninsured Texans, Aguilar on post-shutdown prospects for immigration reform, Batheja on reused wastewater and the Trinity River, Grissom on undocumented inmates, Hamilton with the latest in the Rick Perry/UT-Austin drama, MacLaggan on fast-food workers on public assistance, Malewitz on a massive wind power project, Ramsey on the status quo, Satija on water policy's strange bedfellows and M. Smith on David Dewhurst's call for President Obama's impeachment: The best of our best content for the week of Oct. 14-18, 2013. Full Story 

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    Credit: Graphic by Todd Wiseman