Here is an update to my June post about Houston Chronicle departures.
According to an internal memo obtained by mikemcguff.com, the newspaper of the Bayou City has been hiring recently.
Alexandra Stuckey will join the team in the middle of September. She will be the Chron's new NASA, science and environment reporter. While at the Salt Lake Tribune, Stuckey was part of the team that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for local reporting concerning stories on the flawed responses to sexual assault at Brigham Young University. The Ohio University grad also worked as a statehouse reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and covered the Idaho National Laboratory as a reporter for The Idaho Falls Post Register.
Spring-Tomball-Klien and Cy-Fair reporter Glynn Hill transitions to the paper's sports desk where he will cover Rice University and other Houston-area colleges. The Howard University grad interned at ESPN.
Native Houstonian and University of Houston grad Mayra Cruz replaces Hill at the Northwest Group weeklies.
Alejandra Matos joins the paper's Austin bureau. The native of El Paso comes from the The Washington Post where she covered education.
Michelle Iracheta has joined The Woodlands Villager as a reporter. The UH grad and former Chronicle intern, previously worked at the Yakima Herald and the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Conroe Courier sports reporter Demetrio Teniente has been promoted to chron.com digital sports producer.
After I posted by Chron job moves post last June, Richard Prince of The Root wrote 7 journalists of Color Leaving Houston Chronicle which at the time I put out on social media.
Also, many of my readers have expressed confusion about the two Houston Chronicle websites - chron.com (free) and houstonchronicle.com (paid subscription with some free reads thrown in).
“People who live here in this city don’t even know there’s a second website,” outgoing senior editor Maria Carrillo admitted to Poynter in June.
In the same article, we learn Chron editor in chief Nancy Barnes has been hiring lots of folks and increasing the size of the paper's newsroom.
That is certainly good news.
I've heard there was a dark cloud at times over the paper's old downtown Houston HQ.
She is also working on improving morale and implementing better digital training.
Speaking of the Chron's digital efforts...I am a huge fan of the paper's podcasts the Texas Take with Scott Braddock and Mike "Are we having fun yet?" Ward and Looped In with Nancy Sarnoff.
Do you dare face the "Lightning Round?"
