Texas

Anna Wilder

Prior to joining The Associated Press, Wilder was a political and Statehouse reporter in South Carolina with The Post and Courier. During three years covering the Statehouse, including a year and a half at The State newspaper, she chronicled the state’s most contentious policy fights, documenting both the legislative maneuvering and the people most affected. She also spent months covering the arrest and indictment of a former lawmaker on charges related to child sexual abuse material. She is a Florida native and graduated from the University of Florida, where she was managing editor of The Independent Florida Alligator, the student newspaper. Her work has appeared in outlets like Politico, the Miami Herald, and ProPublica.

Eleanor Fitzgerald

Eleanor Fitzgerald is a veteran and military communities reporter in San Antonio. Prior to joining The San Antonio Report, Fitzgerald reported on Texas politics for the statewide politics show Capital Tonight. She worked to document conditions inside federal detention facilities, the impact of the newly passed redistricting maps on the 2026 midterm elections and the reverberating effects of immigration enforcement on Texans. While completing her bachelor’s degree in international affairs at George Washington University, Fitzgerald was a part of the Global Bachelor’s Program, spending time in South Africa, Northern Ireland and Chile to study conflict reporting. While living in Santiago, she was an intern at El Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos, where she worked on exhibits documenting the role of journalists during the Chilean military dictatorship. In college she served as the contributing culture editor of the GW Hatchet, the student newspaper, and she was raised in Naperville, Illinois.

Destini Ambus

Prior to joining The Austin Free Press, Ambus worked as the general assignment reporter for Chatham County municipalities for the Savannah Morning News. She attended Auburn University, where she earned her B.A. in journalism and was the editor-in-chief of The Auburn Plainsman. She was also a member of the inaugural class of the New York Times Corps.

Hannah Ramirez

Before joining The Uvalde Leader-News, Hannah Psalma Ramirez worked as an education policy intern for POLITICO, where she reported on stories at the intersection of artificial intelligence and immigration. She has also interned and freelanced across several newsrooms in San Diego CA, focusing on investigative and public affairs reporting. In 2025, Ramirez was selected as a Carnegie-Knight News21 fellow, where she contributed to a national reporting project examining how military service members were being targeted by immigration enforcement policies. Born and raised in San Diego, Ramirez is a proud graduate of San Diego State University, where she studied journalism and served as an opinion editor for the university’s student newspaper. When she’s not reporting, Ramirez enjoys exploring local coffee shops and getting lost in a good book, often balancing both at once.

San Antonio Report

The San Antonio Report was established in 2012 and remains the city’s only fully-digital nonprofit local news source. We publish free, high-quality and nonpartisan journalism, and host numerous civic engagement events in San Antonio and surrounding areas. Through our coverage and community initiatives, we strive to create quality local journalism that surfaces underrepresented voices, holds elected leaders accountable and initiates positive change.

Austin Free Press

Austin Free Press is a non-profit, digital news platform, who seeks input from community members to guide content. Before publishing we partnered with our local historically Black university, Huston-Tillotson, to train underrepresented students as journalists and to write for AFP. Our goal is to increase accuracy in news reporting by centering our coverage on underserved communities and issues, and promote civil dialogue to empower all Austinites to make more informed decisions about our community.

Uvalde Leader-News

The Uvalde Leader-News is a locally-owned newspaper covering Uvalde County, Texas, as the region's primary public information source. Empowered by the freedom and responsibility of the First Amendment, we insist that our reporting be impartial regardless of party, sect, or special interests. We strive to produce reporting that is inclusive, objective, and accurate. We provide a forum for readers to express their opinions through letters to the editor and guest columns.

The Associated Press – Texas

The Associated Press is a global news organization that is one of the world's most trusted sources of independent, nonpartisan and factual news in all formats. The AP is located in 100 countries and has journalists in all 50 states. More than half the world's population sees AP journalism every day.

Texas Public Radio

Texas Public Radio operates seven public radio stations, serving a wide swath of South Central Texas. Our aggregated service area consists of 22 counties covering 20,000 square miles. Two of our stations (KSTX, 24/7 news and information, and KPAC, 24/7 classical music) serve the San Antonio area. The other five stations provide service to the Hill Country, the Highland Lakes, Snyder, Del Rio and Gonzales. These are our Tex-Net stations.

Dallas Free Press

Dallas Free Press, a nonprofit news site, launched in January 2020 with the mission of amplifying voices and exploring solutions to the city’s systemic inequities. It focuses community journalism efforts on three zip codes in South Dallas and West Dallas, which are predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods, respectively.