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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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T-Squared
T-Squared: The Trib Goes to Washington
We’ve spent the last five years hounding lawmakers at the Texas Capitol. Thanks to the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, we’ll soon provide this same level of scrutiny of Texas’ congressional delegation — from our new D.C. bureau.
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T-Squared
T-Squared: Our Shale Play
The Shale Life project, the culmination of months of reporting on the people and communities behind Texas’ energy boom, launches today. It’s our first-ever project that’s entirely visual — and also the first we’ve financed via crowdfunding.
Posted inState Government
TribLive: Lege Preview With Nichols, Clardy
Watch live as Texas Tribune CEO and Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith previews the 84th legislative session with state Sen. Robert Nichols and state Rep. Travis Clardy at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches.
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Politics
Video: Abbott, Davis Face Off in Final Debate
Watch full video of the second and final gubernatorial debate between Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott and state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, courtesy of KERA.
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T-Squared
T-Squared: Trib Wins Awards for Lege Coverage
At this weekend’s Online Journalism Awards ceremony in Chicago, the Tribune was honored in a big way — twice — for reporting projects in and around the 83rd legislative session.
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Higher Education
Straus Says He’s “Awfully Sick” of UT Regents Drama
Speaking at the University of Texas at Austin on Saturday, House Speaker Joe Straus said he’s “awfully sick” of the drama between regents and legislators that is making it the “only campus in the state of Texas that gets this much attention.”
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T-Squared
T-Squared: Beacon Beckons
At the Trib, we’re all about experimenting, from our business model to the tools we use to tell stories. This month, we’re toying with a new way to let readers support reporting they care about — using the crowdfunding-for-journalism site Beacon Reader.
Posted inCourts, Criminal Justice, Politics
New in TribTalk: Henson, Blank on the Real Stakes of the Perry Indictment
UT/Texas Tribune pollsters Jim Henson and Joshua Blank take a look at whether the indictment, in calling attention to Gov. Rick Perry’s view of the governor’s authority, will affect the power of the office after his departure.
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New in TribTalk: Mark P. Jones on the Patrick-Van de Putte Political Divide
Rice University political science department chairman Mark P. Jones writes that while it’s not news to say the 2014 lieutenant governor’s race provides Texas voters with a stark contrast in political ideologies, now the numbers back it up.
