Portland Press Herald in Maine hires Benninghoff to cover city hall

Grace Benninghoff will join The Portland Press Herald in Maine to cover city hall. She wrote on Twitter: “Excited to explore a new corner of the northeast and tell stories for a great publication.” Benninghoff has been with Texas Monthly since the beginning of the year, where she works as a reproductive health contributing writer. […]

LA Times taps Herrera to serve as national correspondent

The Los Angeles Times has hired Jack Herrera as a national correspondent focused on expanding coverage of the changing American West. He begins May 30. Recently, Herrera was a senior editor at Texas Monthly, where he covered Latino issues, immigration and elections. Before that, he reported, wrote and hosted Texas Monthly’s “White Hats” podcast, a […]

Texas Monthly makes two editorial hires

The Texas Monthly has welcomed Sasha von Oldershausen as an associate editor, focused on news and politics, and Lauren Castro as social media editor.   Recently, Oldershausen worked as a Metro desk stringer at The New York Times. Her freelance work appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Harper’s, The Nation and The Oxford […]

Texas Monthly seeks copy editor

The Texas Monthly is looking for a copy editor who will work with the editorial team to ensure the grammatical and stylistic accuracy of its published work. The editor will focus on the print magazine but may be asked to edit web copy and scripts for audio and video stories as needed. DUTIES: Vetting manuscripts […]