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Watch former U.S. Justice Department officials speak at the 2023 Texas Tribune Festival
Read full article: Watch former U.S. Justice Department officials speak at the 2023 Texas Tribune FestivalMary McCord and Andrew Weissmann sat down with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes in a recording of Hayes’ “Why is this Happening?” podcast.
Meet the newest class of Tribune fellows
Read full article: Meet the newest class of Tribune fellowsFellows play key roles in the most important work of the Tribune, helping with The Texas Tribune Festival and covering the biennial legislative sessions, education and the environment, among other important topics.
House committee advances tweak to free speech protection law, prompting fear from First Amendment advocates
Read full article: House committee advances tweak to free speech protection law, prompting fear from First Amendment advocatesThe change is supported by business groups, but has drawn opposition from media companies, First Amendment lawyers and political groups from across the ideological spectrum.
Journalists fear Texas Legislature could weaken law designed to protect free speech
Read full article: Journalists fear Texas Legislature could weaken law designed to protect free speechNews publications and First Amendment advocates are fighting a bill to revise a state law meant to prevent litigants from weaponizing the legal system to punish people for speech they don’t like.
Texas Observer editors protest layoffs, urge crowdfunding to save the 68-year-old magazine
Read full article: Texas Observer editors protest layoffs, urge crowdfunding to save the 68-year-old magazineJournalists at the progressive publication expect to be laid off this week. Relations between the board and senior staff have severely eroded.
Texas Observer, legendary crusading liberal magazine, is closing and laying off its staff
Read full article: Texas Observer, legendary crusading liberal magazine, is closing and laying off its staffThe 68-year-old progressive publication, which published Ronnie Dugger, Molly Ivins and Kaye Northcott, hit financial troubles and wasn’t able to broaden its audience, board members said.
TribCast: Ross Ramsey reflects on four decades of Texas politics
Read full article: TribCast: Ross Ramsey reflects on four decades of Texas politicsOn this week’s episode, Matthew, Evan and Alexa reminisce with Texas Tribune co-founder and Executive Editor Ross Ramey as he wraps up his last day of work.
Republican lawmakers bar journalists from statehouse floors
Read full article: Republican lawmakers bar journalists from statehouse floorsUtah's state Senate passed rules this week limiting where the press can go to report in statehouses, marking the latest move by Republican state lawmakers nationwide who are peeling back access to chambers after the pandemic provided new accessibility.
T-Squared: Sewell Chan is The Texas Tribune’s next editor-in-chief
Read full article: T-Squared: Sewell Chan is The Texas Tribune’s next editor-in-chiefThe visionary, venerated editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times — a veteran of The New York Times and The Washington Post — will lead our nonprofit newsroom in a moment when more Texans than ever are clamoring for reliable, credible nonpartisan journalism.
Secret Service tells press to leave White House grounds in highly unusual move
Read full article: Secret Service tells press to leave White House grounds in highly unusual moveThe US Secret Service on Monday evening told members of the White House press corps to immediately leave the White House grounds, a highly unusual decision that did not immediately come with an explanation. The decision came during an ongoing demonstration in Lafayette Square, across the street from the White House where protestors were trying to bring down a statue of former President Andrew Jackson that stands in the middle of the park. Last month, Trump was briefly taken to the underground bunker for a period of time as protesters gathered outside the White House, according to a White House official and a law enforcement source. Following that episode, the White House cautioned staffers who must go to work to hide their passes until they reach a Secret Service entry point and to hide them as they leave, according to an email which was viewed by CNN. He remained at the boarded-up building, brandishing a Bible for the cameras, for only a matter of minutes before returning to the White House.