Matthew Watkins
Editor-in-Chief at Texas Tribune
Editor-in-chief at @texastribune. Aggie. Winner of the 2011 Texas Christmas Tree Growers Award for business writing. Ask me about my kids.
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3 weeks ago |
texastribune.org | Matthew Watkins |Natalie Choate
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas and the American journalism community have lost a luminary. John Thornton, a founder of The Texas Tribune and one of the most vital and influential leaders in nonprofit journalism, died on Saturday. He was 59. His passing is an immeasurable loss for our staff, our board, our many supporters and readers past and present.
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1 month ago |
click2houston.com | Matthew Watkins
Published: March 18, 2025 at 1:43 PMTags: Politics, health care, Greg Abbott, video, Texas LegislatureSign up for our Newsletters Click2Houston Community Events Published: March 18, 2025 at 1:43 PMTags: Politics, health care, Greg Abbott, video, Texas LegislatureSign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
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1 month ago |
ksat.com | Matthew Watkins
Published: March 18, 2025 at 1:43 PMTags: Politics, health care, Greg Abbott, video, Texas LegislatureSign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Matthew Watkins
This week, on the fifth anniversary of the start of the COVID pandemic, Matthew and Eleanor speak with Dr. Peter Hotez, an author and vaccine and infectious disease expert, about the state of our public health system, the impact of the public health crisis and the outbreak of measles in West Texas. Watch the video above. Or you can subscribe to the TribCast on on iTunes, Spotify, or RSS.
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1 month ago |
texastribune.org | Matthew Watkins
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In this week's episode, Matthew speaks with University of Texas at Austin professor Sherri Greenberg about attempts by state lawmakers to protect Texans from the dangers of artificial intelligence and the blowback they're creating among some Republicans and people in the tech industry. Watch the video above.
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The defense and energy of UH is unreal.
The Tribune and the journalism world as a whole have lost a true great. This is a tough one, but feeling grateful for all the John has done for us -- and me, personally. This industry and Texas are forever changed because of him. https://t.co/k1Nde9IAZL
Trib reach: Five separate @TexasTribune stories appeared on front pages of seven total Texas newspapers today — all were allowed to republish them for free. https://t.co/GB7qv5xCfI
