Sewell Chan

The crusading liberal magazine had planned to lay off its staff and shut down. But the board has now reversed course.

At the annual conference of the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, two Republican lawmakers described how government officials fail to meet transparency requirements.

The Trust Project’s eight Trust Indicators are the first major global transparency standard for news. They include honesty, accuracy and fairness; owning up to mistakes; disclosure of our funding; and details on our journalists’ expertise.

We came up with an “engagement score” to determine our most viewed and read articles of the year.

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Berenice Garcia in McAllen, Jess Huff in Lufkin and Laura Duclos in Houston are our newsroom’s latest hires.

Jaden Edison comes to us from the nonprofit Connecticut Mirror. He will take on one of The Texas Tribune’s most urgent and high-profile beats.

Kayla Guo, after a successful yearlong fellowship covering Congress for The New York Times, joins The Texas Tribune.

Santos is our evening news editor, Chang our health and human services editor and Reid our education data developer.