The supremely talented Matthew Watkins, who has reported for both The Dallas Morning News and The Bryan-College Station Eagle, is joining Team Trib to cover higher education — as well as the business of college sports.
Emily Ramshaw
Emily Ramshaw was the editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune from 2016 to 2020. During her tenure, the Tribune — billed “one of the nonprofit news sector’s runaway success stories” — won a Peabody Award, several national Murrow Awards and top honors from the Online News Association.
Before joining the Tribune in 2010 as one of its founding reporters, Ramshaw spent six years at The Dallas Morning News, where she broke national stories about sexual abuse inside Texas’ youth lock-ups, reported from inside a West Texas polygamist compound and uncovered “fight clubs” inside state institutions for the disabled. The Texas APME named Ramshaw its 2008 star reporter of the year. In 2016, she was named to the board of the Pulitzer Prizes.
A native of Washington, D.C., and the product of two journalist parents, Ramshaw graduated from Northwestern University in 2003 with dual degrees in journalism and American history.
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TribCast: Former Fetuses, Presidential Perry, Undrinkable Water
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks with Ross, Neena and Patrick about Rep. Jonathan Stickland’s “Former Fetus” sign, Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential ambitions and the Trib’s Undrinkable water quality project.
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T-Squared: A New Partnership With CIR’s Reveal
We’re partnering with Reveal — the Center for Investigative Reporting’s innovative public radio program and podcast — to hire a long-form radio reporter. And it’s someone Trib readers know well.
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T-Squared: An In-Depth Series on Undrinkable Water
Today we launch Undrinkable — a crucial reporting project that exposes the malfeasance, red tape, environmental woes and cultural barriers that stand in the way of getting clean, safe water to Texans in need.
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TribCast: David Simpson, Weed and Crumbling Agencies
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks with Evan, Ross and Jay about crumbling infrastructure at state agencies, the candidates to be the next UT-Austin president, and — what else — state Rep. David Simpson’s stance on legalizing weed.
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T-Squared: Introducing Email Roundups by Topic
Starting today, you can sign up to receive daily or weekly roundups of all Texas Tribune stories by topic — from immigration to transportation to energy. Interested in the 2016 presidential race? We’ve got one for that, too.
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TribCast: Polling, Border Security and Tax Cuts
On this week’s TribCast — the first sans Reeve! — Emily talks with Ross, Julian and Jim about the UT/TT Poll, the border security battle in the Legislature and tax cut proposals facing state lawmakers.
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T-Squared: Patrick Svitek is Latest Trib Hire
Our newest political reporter will chase and break quick-turn stories from the Legislature and the 2016 campaign trail.
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T-Squared: Sign Up Now for 2016 Alerts
On this Presidents’ Day, we’re rolling out a special new feature for those of you — like us — who can’t get enough presidential politics: free email blasts alerting you to every new 2016 headline on our site.
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T-Squared: Reeve Takes His Leave
One of the Tribune’s original and most entrepreneurial reporters, Reeve Hamilton, is leaving us — and journalism. We’ll miss him a lot (but will continue to harass him daily).
