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American-Statesman staff
Longtime Austin journalist John Bridges announced his retirement as American-Statesman executive editor Friday, and the news organization named a respected industry leader to succeed him.
Manny García, who currently leads ProPublica’s Austin-based investigative partnership with the Texas Tribune, will become the Statesman’s editor and vice president next month. García previously served as standards editor and East Region executive editor for the USA TODAY Network, which now includes the American-Statesman and seven other Texas daily newspapers. It s an honor to be given the opportunity to lead the Austin American-Statesman as it turns 150 years old, García said. I m being handed the keys to a wonderful franchise, with a terrific team and I can t wait for us to begin this journey together.”
Finding the Story in the Numbers
A photo taken by data journalism student Sophie Park (Pardee’20) shows a man panhandling in Harvard Square in May. Photo by Sophie Park Journalism & Media
A COM journalism class’ reporting on homelessness grabs national attention
December 11, 2020 Twitter Facebook
Government attempts to address homelessness in Boston have long yielded messy results. Just think of the controversial closing of the Long Island Bridge in 2015, which shuttered the city’s largest homeless shelter. Even before the coronavirus pandemic, it was a subject worthy of a deep journalistic investigation.
So, last summer, when the University of Maryland’s Howard Center for Investigative Journalism asked the College of Communication’s Maggie Mulvihill if her students wanted to join Nowhere to Go, a multi-college investigation of homelessness in America, there was only one possible answer: