Emily Ramshaw is the editor of The Texas Tribune (texastribune.org), a nonprofit news organization that promotes civic engagement and discourse on public policy, politics and government. Under her leadership, the Tribune has won national Edward R. Murrow Awards, Society of Professional Journalists awards and a general excellence award from the Online News Association. Before coming aboard as one of the Tribune’s original reporters, Ramshaw spent six years at The Dallas Morning News, where she broke national stories about sexual abuse inside Texas’ youth lock-ups, reported from inside a West Texas polygamist compound, uncovered “fight clubs” inside state institutions for the disabled and investigated a series of deadly transplants where patients received rabies-tainted organs. The Texas APME named Ramshaw its 2008 Star Reporter of the Year.
