The ongoing stress of reporting during a pandemic has been compounded by the Lone Star State’s new crisis, said Texas Tribune editorial director Stacy-Marie Ishmael. Houston Chronicle journalists did the same when Hurricane Harvey flooded their city in 2017. Its journalists have been working around-the-clock, meeting up in homes that miraculously still have power to file their reports. “This has affected way more people on a personal level than Hurricane Harvey.”Despart has had no potable water all week, and only intermittent electricity. ADADElsewhere in the country, people unable to reach relatives inside of Texas have come to rely on the Tribune’s reporting.

Source: Washington Post February 19, 2021 20:39 UTC