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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It was a short-lived victory for the federal government over Texas’ anti-migrant border buoys. The day after a federal judge ordered the buoys' removal, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency stay. -
Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin demanded that District Attorney Christina Mitchell resign over her handling of the Robb Elementary School shooting investigation.
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A second body was found about three miles upriver. DPS claimed the barrier was not to blame for the deaths. The buoys were installed in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass last month to deter migrant crossings.
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Emails from the Texas Department of Public Safety allege state troopers witnessed several incidents of migrant abuse in Eagle Pass as part of Operation Lone Star, Gov. Greg Abbott's controversial border security initiative. State officials deny the allegations.
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Jaime Esparza, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, said four more arrests have been made in the deadliest migrant smuggling case in modern U.S. history.
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Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar on Monday filed criminal charges over the Florida governor's operation to fly dozens of migrants from San Antonio to Martha's Vineyard under false pretenses.
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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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Uvalde Police said Thursday evening that a shooting at the city's Memorial Park has injured two people, but that "it is not a dangerous situation for the general public." Thursday's shooting occurred about a mile away from Robb Elementary School, where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers on May 24.
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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.
