Two weeks ago, we asked readers to help us raise $35,000 to send two reporters to the Rio Grande Valley to ramp up our coverage of the family separation crisis. As of today, we’re thrilled to report we’ve raised nearly $75,000.
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: Looming family reunification deadlines and moldy state office buildings
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Patrick and Emma about Texas’ mold-infested state health services building, whether the feds will meet a court-ordered deadline for migrant family reunifications and why some Republican statewide officials have no incentive to debate their Democratic opponents.
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T-Squared
The Texas Tribune is crowdfunding our border coverage, and we need your help
We’re ramping up coverage of the family separation crisis. Can you help us raise $35,000 to staff a bureau in the Rio Grande Valley?
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TribCast
TribCast: The latest on the shifting immigration crisis
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Patrick, Marissa and Emma about the politics at play in the ongoing border crisis and how countries with striking similarities to Texas have brought down their maternal mortality rates.
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Crisis on the border, 5-year anniversary of the Wendy Davis filibuster and the latest UT/Texas Tribune poll
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Jay, Neena, Edgar and Ross about inconsistent efforts to reunify immigrant parents and kids on the border, how Texas voters feel about separating families in the name of immigration enforcement, and the legacy of the Wendy Davis filibuster.
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Immigration
T-Squared: Texas Tribune wins three national Edward R. Murrow awards
We’re grateful to the Murrows for spotlighting journalism that highlights the plight of some of Texas’ most vulnerable populations, from foster kids to immigrant children.
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Immigrant family separations, Pain and Profit in Medicaid managed care
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Ross, Emma and The Dallas Morning News’ Dave McSwane about the separation of immigrant families on the Texas-Mexico border and McSwane’s Pain and Profit series about misdeeds in the state’s Medicaid managed care program.
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“Blood Will Tell” investigation, death row with disabilities
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Jolie and the New York Times Magazine and ProPublica’s Pamela Colloff on Pam’s two-part “Blood Will Tell” series on blood spatter analysis and the state’s consideration of intellectual disabilities in death row cases.
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Comptroller Hegar downplays potential tax benefit of sports gambling in Texas
In this edition of the TribCast, the last before the May 22 primary runoff, Texas Tribune Editor-in-Chief Emily Ramshaw sits down with CEO Evan Smith, Executive Editor Ross Ramsey, political reporter Patrick Svitek and a special guest, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar.
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Forecasting the Valdez-White debate and understaffed Texas prisons (podcast)
On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Ross, Patrick and Jolie about Friday’s lone Democratic gubernatorial debate, massive understaffing at one Texas prison and what runoff turnout might look like.
