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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Police in Austin and San Antonio are investigating acts of antisemitism after members of a neo-Nazi group traveled through both cities in recent days. -
Eleven Republican governors gathered in Mission, Texas to announce a plan they say President Joe Biden must follow to effectively combat the humanitarian crisis created by the record number of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Hope And Despair In Del Rio As Biden Administration Begins Expelling Migrants From Border EncampmentTo some, this scene represents a broken immigration system that opportunistic migrants are taking advantage of. To others, it presents an opportunity for America to once again welcome people in need from around the world.
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The Texas Poison Center has received 260 calls with ivermectin poisoning. Ivermectin is a livestock dewormer, and people are using it to prevent or treat a coronavirus infection.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a ruling to reinstate the controversial Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) that required asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their day in court.
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The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday evening denied Attorney General Ken Paxton's request to stay three temporary restraining orders in Travis County. At around the same time, the Texas Fourth Court of Appeals upheld an injunction against Gov. Greg Abbott on behalf of San Antonio and Bexar County over their mask mandate in schools.
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A federal judge in El Paso has extended by two weeks a temporary restraining order blocking Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order restricting the transportation of migrants in the state. The Department of Justice asked for the restraining order to keep Abbott from using state troopers to stop vehicles suspected of transporting migrants.
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Texas state troopers investigated a crash involving an overcrowded van carrying 29 people believed to be migrants. Ten people — including the driver — were declared dead on site, and 20 survivors were seriously injured.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday issued an executive order that restricts the transportation of detained migrants under the pretext of stopping the spread of COVID-19, something immigrant rights activists describe as unconstitutional and fascist.
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UPDATE: FBI officials previously said they were searching for a potential second person of interest involved in the Naval Air Station shooting. On May...
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Officials in Matamoros, Mexico, are threatening to separate asylum seekers from their children if they don't leave a tent encampent of more than 1500...
