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We are thrilled to introduce Melissa Barragán Taboada will certainly function as the inaugural editor-in-chief of The Texas Tribune’s brand-new Austin newsroom.
When we laid out to discover a brand-new newsroom leader, we desired somebody that might wed content quality with a deep community-oriented vision. Melissa brings precisely that: the experience, skill and enthusiasm to assist Austin homeowners much better recognize their city and form its future.
” I’m extremely happy for the possibility to assist introduce this newsroom and to be component of developing a community-centered magazine from scratch,” Melissa stated regarding this brand-new duty. “Austin is home– it’s where we elevated our children, developed long lasting origins, and where my heart has actually constantly been. I wish to live and offer in the city I like.”
Melissa is distinctly planned for this duty. She invested greater than two decades at the Austin American-Statesman, where she released 2 regional papers in bordering areas and mentored young reporters. She is a honored graduate of the College of Texas at Austin and worked as a complement teacher of journalism.
Most just recently, she has actually been leading the Boston World’s Great Split group, which examines instructional injustices throughout Massachusetts. Under her management, the group won several nationwide honors, consisting of sharing an Edward R. Murrow Honor that recognized the World’s newsroom for general quality. Melissa has actually likewise been acknowledged with NAHJ’s New England’s Influence Honor and called to ALX100 by Amplify Latinx.
In her brand-new duty, Melissa will certainly develop and lead a newsroom committed to shutting the info spaces in Austin; promoting critical cooperations with regional companies; and supplying appropriate, prompt journalism that equals Austin’s eruptive development.
She will certainly function very closely with Joel Gross, basic supervisor of the Austin newsroom, to expand our target market and grow our effect, structure on the structure of the Austin Screen, which the Tribune obtained this year. Melissa starts Sept. 30.
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In the meantime, please join us in inviting Melissa back to Austin and prepare for a brand-new age of community-centered journalism in the city that’s forming Texas’ future.
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