New York Times Establishes 5-Person Texas Team to Expand Coverage
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 17
New York Times Establishes 5-Person Texas Team to Expand Coverage
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 17
Summary
Five reporters and editors have formed The New York Times’s new Texas hub, led by Texas-based editor Fernando Alfonso III after planning that began last year.
Texas drove the expansion because the paper sees the state as an economic powerhouse and cultural force whose business, political, religious and social trends can help explain changes across the country.
In its first six months, the team covered the aftermath of deadly Camp Mystic flooding, persistent poverty in booming San Antonio and a family left to raise itself after ICE took the parents.
Alfonso, who joined in December from The Houston Chronicle and lives near Houston, said the hub also aims to address perceptions that The Times does not understand Texas.