From the managing editor level down, @TexasTribune remains a stronghold of bright, talented and dedicated journalists who will continue doing great work.
After years spent cultivating the misanthropic curmudgeon editor genre, I’m now forced to be humbled and touched by everyone’s thoughtfulness and kindness, damnit.
I highly recommend reading @alexazura final story in today’s @TexasTribune She put a tremendous amount of thought and reporting into it, and we finished touching it up after learning we were to be laid off as the Trib struggles to overcome self-inflicted management turmoil.
Descendants of a prominent white family and a formerly enslaved couple are fighting over ownership — and the oil and gas royalties that would come with it — of an 147.5-acre tract that has bound and divided generations of their families. https://t.co/hDhrtVr6L7
Two of the greatest journalists I’ve ever had the privilege of working with. @alexazura@jsmccullou We were all laid off today as @TexasTribune attempts to reverse financial and leadership tailspin.
Here’s a textbook example of not letting intellectual honesty get in the way of a clickbait lead. “It’s time to die. You guys are mine,” gunman said during 75 minutes of terror in Uvalde https://t.co/2nuLQIbfF5
Great ones: @chris_buckle, who trusted my gut. @JacqueePetchel whose "Don't f'ing bore me" edict, still haunts me, @DavidPasztor whose blow torch ways erases all confusion. @eramshaw for always knowing what she wants. @rossramsey forces you to think beyond what u think you know.
25-year-old New Zealand lawmaker Chlöe Swarbrick was giving a speech supporting a climate crisis bill when she was heckled by an older member of Parliament. She simply said, "OK boomer," and kept talking, unfazed. https://t.co/LKgoViy9WB