Sewell Chan

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

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.

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

Our newsroom earned recognition for top reporter, investigative report, infographic, video and Freedom of Information work.

AP will distribute Tribune articles to its members. The Tribune will have access to AP’s immigration and Texas stories.

He’s covered state government for the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News since 2021.

Texas is an economic and cultural powerhouse. It’s also among the least civically engaged states in America. This project explores how democracy is experienced and challenged here with a collection of stories that elevate the voices of regular voters, explainers that demystify elections and events where Texans share their concerns about the state’s institutions. Sign up for our bimonthly newsletter with the latest updates here.

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

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.

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