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Sarah ScireJuly 18, 2024

To find readers for longform investigations, Public Health Watch leans on partners and in-person work

Nonprofit newsrooms are competing for limited funding and attention spans, grappling with diminishing returns on social, and trying to address low trust in media. It’s forcing outlets large and small to adapt to survive.

Sarah ScireAugust 29, 2023

The Texas Tribune’s first-ever layoffs worry the news industry

Frustration over a lack of transparency has been amplified by the newsroom’s status as “the gold standard of nonprofit journalism” and a role model other outlets have been encouraged to follow.

Hanaa' TameezFebruary 14, 2023

The Dallas Morning News guts its Spanish-language newspaper, Al Día, after 19 years

“It’s like [management] is cutting up a car and using the pieces for parts.”

Amid rolling power outages, Texas news outlets are texting audiences with updates

Hanaa' TameezFebruary 18, 2021

Launching a news nonprofit in Fort Worth, Chris Cobler doesn’t want to “repeat the mistakes of the past”

“Nobody wants to look back on the work we’ve done and say, ‘God, we were really clueless 50 years ago.’ We want to start every day thinking that we’re as in touch with the community as we possibly can be and reflect their interests and values.”

Shan WangApril 27, 2017

These national journalists are building a local site to bring a different kind of news to East Texas

The Tyler Loop fashions itself as a data-savvy, digital alt-weekly for the growing, increasingly diverse city of Tyler.

Laura Hazard OwenNovember 17, 2016

At Texas’s thriving Community Impact, print is the focus, not digital (and that’s the point)

“We don’t have a dead-tree edition at Community Impact. We are alive.”

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 26, 2016

The Texas Tribune updates its premium political coverage for an email newsletter world

Goodbye, Texas Weekly. Hello, The Blast.

Shan WangAugust 1, 2016

The nonprofit Austin Monitor is trying to find the sweet spot for hyperlocal policy news

It’s exploring how to get more people to care about local government, while trying to make enough money to build on the types of coverage that get residents interested and involved.

Justin EllisDecember 18, 2014

New friends: The Washington Post and The Texas Tribune enter into a new reporting partnership

In October the Austin-based news nonprofit ended a collaboration with The New York Times. Now the Tribune and the Post will share stories and co-sponsor events.

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