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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Roberson was scheduled to be executed on Thursday but an unprecedented legal move, a subpoena from the Texas House, saved him from lethal injection. Legislators are investigating why the state’s junk science law has not been applied in Roberson’s case and others on death row. -
A federal judge has ruled that parts of the Texas voter security law SB1 are unconstitutional, and Texas can no longer investigate voter assistance efforts as a criminal act. -
Nineteen families who lost their loved ones in the 2022 Robb Elementary School shooting announced a settlement Wednesday with the city and county of Uvalde and a lawsuit against the Texas Department of Public Safety. -
Chief Daniel Rodriguez was taking pre-scheduled vacation time in Phoenix during the Robb Elementary School shooting on May 24, 2022. -
Joyce Slocum, who led both NPR and Texas Public Radio into a new era for public media, died Sunday from complications of colon cancer. -
U.S. Border Patrol recorded 124,220 encounters between ports of entry along the southwest border last month, down 42% from December 2023 and is the lowest recorded so far during this fiscal year. -
Paxton, a Republican who beat impeachment charges last year, has commented for the first time on why he has not listed six out-of-state properties on his state ethics forms. -
Federal officials accuse Texas of preventing the rescue of three migrants who drowned as they tried to cross the Rio Grande. Texas authorities deny the claim, saying their patrols found no one.
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A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande while attempting to cross the U.S. border. U.S. border authorities officials say the state of Texas blocked them from conducting a rescue operation.
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A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass on Friday night as they were attempting to cross the U.S. southern border. TPR has confirmed that U.S. Border Patrol was prevented from deploying lifesaving efforts by agents with Operation Lone Star, the controversial Texas border security initiative. -
Eagle Pass residents were surprised Wednesday night to learn that Gov. Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star has once again seized control of their public park. -
A public memorial built along the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass honors the lives of more than 700 migrants who have died on the border in 2023.
