Dan Katz
TPR's News Director Katz leads the organization’s news and journalism efforts, overseeing the newsroom’s day-to-day management and the development of a strategic vision for the news division. He also serves on the organization’s executive leadership team. TPR’s news team currently has 16 staff members, including reporters dedicated to in-depth coverage of subjects including Arts & Culture, Bioscience & Medicine, Education, Technology & Entrepreneurship, Military & Veterans Issues and State Government.
Previously, Katz served as the news director of WSHU Public Radio. Based in Fairfield, Connecticut, WSHU serves 300,000 weekly listeners in Connecticut, Long Island and New York’s Hudson Valley. At WSHU, Katz oversaw a 15-person newsroom and has helped launch the organization’s business desk, podcasts and its first daily talk show. While there, he created the station’s news fellowship program for student journalists of diverse backgrounds. Previously, Katz worked as reporter, producer and on-air host at WUFT-FM and WUFT-TV in Gainesville, Florida.
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Día de los Muertos, honors loved ones who have passed, the holiday resonated in Uvalde, Texas with a deeper degree of tragedy this year after the community lost 19 children and two teachers last May. -
Mexican government officials confirm to TPR that Biden administration is urging Mexico to take migrants from Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Haiti expelled under Title 42.
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Mike Sheppard was a jail warden for the West Texas Detention Center in Sierra Blanca — a privately owned detention facility that used to contract with the federal government to detain migrants. Louisiana-based LaSalle Corrections confirmed that he no longer worked with the company.
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Families of the 21 victims of the mass shooting at Robb Elementary had been demanding Arredondo be fired since details became clear of the law enforcement failures that day.
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In conservative Gillespie County, the elections administrator and her two deputies have resigned, with at least one citing threats fueled by misinformation.
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The report details the botched police response to the elementary school shooting in May. The analysis found nearly 400 officers converged on the scene but no one led a unified response.
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The decision to suspend Pete Arredondo follows the police response to the deadly school shooting at Robb Elementary which has been called an "abject failure."
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El fiscal del Condado de Starr, Gocha Allen Ramírez, dijo el domingo que ha presentado una moción para desestimar un cargo de asesinato contra una mujer por realizar un "aborto autoinducido".
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Lizelle Herrera, 26, was released from custody Saturday night on $500,000 bond. Then, on Sunday, the DA said the Starr County Sheriff's Department "did their duty in investigating the incident brought to their attention by the reporting hospital." However, he said that this is not a criminal matter under Texas law.
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The reopening marked the reunification of families who haven't seen each other for 20 months and a return of commerce and tourism for hundreds of thousands of daily travelers along the world's busiest land border.
