During a three-hour staff meeting Thursday, Texas Tribune leadership revealed that budget overestimates for the year had propelled the company to institute its first-ever layoffs.
The Tribune — a nonprofit newsroom that has been covering Texas politics and policy issues since 2009 — first announced layoffs Wednesday, cutting 11 people including several longtime journalists and the outlet’s entire copy desk. Those cuts shocked staff and outside observers, many of whom had come to view the Tribune as a beacon of stability in a struggling industry.
