The Texas Longhorns defeated St. Edward's University 84-63 during their scrimmage tonight #HookEm

Honest request: please sign our union’s petition.

Two years at the Herald and no raise.

Come Jan. we’ll make less than $2 above minimum wage.

Most employees don’t make it a year.

I’m broke and my friends are broke.

We’re not trying to get rich. We just want to get by.

'Mondays,' lol

The Texas Longhorns defeat the Houston Cougars 31-24 🤘

ACL 🤝 solar eclipse

The (print) journalism aesthetic is clothes that meet all the technical requirements for business casual but still look like you slept in them, a gas station coffee and five half-filled reporter’s notebooks with handwriting the NSA couldn’t crack.

West Coast - looking at you 👀 I hear Seattle has less than 50 tix left and LA is getting close. Let’s do this. Hannah Wicklund will be sharing her magic every night 💜💜💜.

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📸: @mikalacompton for Austin Statesman

This is the second time in three years my Austin Statesman teammates and I have won the continuing coverage category in the Edward R. Murrow awards for digital publications.
We’re honored tonight for our Uvalde reporting and in 2021 for our work in the death of Javier Ambler II.

Maggie Rogers at ACL Festival ⚡️

Oh hi there 👋 Venus Williams sighting at ACL Festival

Terrifying but SUCH a good example of the instinct photojournalists have that is unquantifiable. Every base human instinct in this situation is designed to make taking this photograph impossible yet Eddie Moore manages to do it. Invaluable.

2/ Jennifer Crecente’s murder had always been covered as a crime story. As the parole review process unfolded, I tried to tell the human story — starting w/ the way mother Elizabeth Crecente created a beautiful garden in the woods where her daughter died.

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🧵1/ The Texas parole board just denied parole for Justin Crabbe, who killed 18-year-old Jennifer Crecente 3 months before she would have graduated from Bowie High School. The 2006 case drew renewed attention to teen dating violence. Latest via Austin Statesman

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This is how I feel when I arrive at any kind of emergency.

NEW: Federal judge issues permanent injunction against Texas Senate Bill 12, a measure that bans drag shows in front of minors. Per judge order, 'S.B. 12 is an UNCONSTITUTIONAL restriction on speech. The Court concludes that S.B. 12 violates the First Amendment.' #txlege

k so completely unrelated here’s my draft of a future TSwift song called “Tight End”

I don’t know who needs to hear this but sometimes when reporters don’t cover things it is not a conspiracy.

Sometimes editorial choices are for shockingly mundane logistical reasons - like someone took a day off. Or went to a conference. Or got sick.

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Here’s a sneak peak for our Austin Statesman Faces off the Field for the next six weeks. Great photos by our Mikala Compton 🦇 statesman.com/picture-galler… #centexpreps

The Longhorns defeat the Wyoming Cowboys 31-10