New roles for Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera and Brandon Formby

We are excited to announce an growth of our modifying ranks and new roles for two formidable story editors.

Alejandro Martínez-Cabrera, who joined us final yr from KUT as our breaking news editor, will transfer to a brand new place: training and city affairs editor. He will edit Brian Lopez, who covers Okay-12; Kate McGee, who covers greater training; Joshua Fechter, who covers city affairs; and Lucy Tompkins, who covers homelessness as a fellow supported by The New York Times Headway Initiative. Alejandro, who additionally has labored on the Knight Center for Journalism within the Americas on the University of Texas at Austin and for the Austin American-Statesman, has distinguished himself as a deep thinker and empathetic editor who cares deeply about underserved audiences and concerning the ethics of news-gathering. Alejandro additionally will co-chair, with John Hernandez, our assistant director of viewers, a brand new organization-wide activity pressure on participating Latino and Spanish-speaking audiences. He will work intently with us and senior managing editor Ayan Mittra on partnerships and on increasing the Tribune’s presence in Spanish-language media.

Brandon Formby, who has led breaking protection of all types of tales as our night time editor since 2019, is coming over to the day facet as news editor. In this position, he’ll oversee our breaking news reporters — Sneha Dey, William Melhado and a author quickly to be employed — and his successor as afternoon/night editor, a job we’re posting. Brandon joined us in 2016 from The Dallas Morning News as our city affairs reporter, based mostly in Dallas. He has grown into his position as a gentle hand with each our copy and with the fellows and staffers he has mentored and nurtured. Brandon has excellent news judgment, a powerful command of workflow and a depraved humorousness that can serve him properly on this demanding position. He will play a essential position in ensuring pressing news will get lined, but in addition be discerning and selective in what we assign, recognizing the necessity to juggle a mixture of news and enterprise.

These modifications additionally have an effect on two of our strongest editors.

Dave Harmon, a stalwart of our newsroom who has excelled at quite a few roles right here, is unhappy to be dropping Joshua and Lucy as direct reviews, however he’ll proceed to remain busy working with Uriel J. García, our immigration reporter; Mitchell Ferman, who covers vitality and the financial system; Erin Douglas, our ace local weather reporter; and a brand new environmental reporter we are going to rent to offer day by day beat protection as Erin carries out formidable enterprise reporting on the myriad methods through which local weather change is reworking Texas. Dave continues to direct our protection of Uvalde within the aftermath of the state’s deadliest faculty taking pictures.

Terri Langford, who has executed an excellent job overseeing each well being and training protection since she returned to the Tribune final yr, will focus extra deeply on well being and human companies, together with the post-Roe v. Wade future, the state’s weak social security web, and the numerous challenges going through working households and kids. She continues to work with Karen Brooks Harper, our public well being reporter, and Eleanor Klibanoff, our ladies’s well being reporter, and we count on so as to add reporters, over time, to cowl psychological well being and baby welfare, whom Terri additionally will oversee. Terri will work with these reporters on protection that requires dogged, persistent digging, at which she excels.

This shift in modifying roles, which is able to take impact someday after Labor Day, allows all of us to assist the wants of a rising newsroom — development made doable by our colleagues on the event, income and product groups. We are so lucky to have extra journalists than ever, and whereas the transition from our founding technology can be an enormous adjustment for all of us, the Tribune’s future is brilliant.

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