Peter Bhatia

1 month ago | houstonlanding.org | Peter Bhatia

To our readers and supporters:Today, May 15, 2025, Houston Landing says goodbye. After more than two years of producing independent, nonpartisan, deeply reported journalism, we have ceased operations due to financial challenges. While this outcome is disappointing, I also feel an immense amount of gratitude and pride in what our team built and accomplished. When Houston Landing launched in February 2023, we set out to make Houston better, one story at a time.

2 months ago | houstonlanding.org | Peter Bhatia

To our readers:It is with great sadness that I am writing to you today. Our Board of Directors have voted to shut down Houston Landing. Houston Landing anticipates it will cease publishing by mid-May of this year. This decision was not made lightly and comes amid a challenging financial environment that has made long-term sustainability unattainable. We were not able to build the additional revenue streams needed to sustain ongoing operational needs.

Sep 16, 2024 | houstonlanding.org | Peter Bhatia

Houston Landing launched 15 months ago to create a new kind of newsroom, a new kind of journalism, in Texas’ biggest city. You’ve been with us through the startup phase of our journey, and today marks a new beginning. Now we enter a transformative phase as we center the communities of Houston in everything we do, from how we make coverage decisions, to how we engage with the community, to how we create positive change for Houstonians the media has largely ignored.

Jan 11, 2024 | editorandpublisher.com | Peter Bhatia |Houston Landing |Gretchen A. Peck

Posted Thursday, January 11, 2024 9:38 am We’ll hire more digitally savvy people. We’ll hire people who can do data visualizations, and we’ve already got great web designers working here.” Houston Landing’s CEO Peter Bhatia had taken a break from the office when E&P spoke with him by phone on Wednesday. It was a tough day in a series of them — for Bhatia, certainly for two members of the newsroom who’d been unexpectedly laid off on Monday and for the entire Landing team reeling from the...

Sep 27, 2023 | editorandpublisher.com | Peter Bhatia |Houston Landing |Gretchen A. Peck

Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2023 12:00 am We’ve got runway to figure out what a nonprofit journalism site can be, successfully, in Houston.” This past February came word that a new nonprofit was budding in Houston — home to more than 2.3 million people, where the population is diverse and geographically widespread. In early June, Houston Landing formally launched under the direction of CEO Peter Bhatia. Two months in, Bhatia spoke with E&P Publisher Mike Blinder on an episode of E&P...