From the Editor: Boomerangs and Beards
Texas Monthly welcomes a new deputy editor for digital journalism and celebrates a strong awards showing.
Dan Goodgame is Texas Monthly's editor in chief. A Pulitzer Prize finalist and best-selling author, Goodgame joined TM in early 2019, after serving as a vice president at Rackspace, a cloud computing company based in San Antonio. Before that, Goodgame was editor in chief of Fortune Small Business magazine, whose subscribers were more than a million owners of entrepreneurial companies. He earlier worked for Time magazine as White House correspondent, Washington bureau chief, and assistant managing editor. He is coauthor of the book Marching in Place, about the first President Bush. Goodgame previously worked for the Miami Herald, including as a correspondent in the Middle East, covering the Israel-Lebanon and Iran-Iraq wars. A native of Pascagoula, Mississippi, Goodgame earned a bachelor's degree at Ole Miss and an master's in international relations at Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
Texas Monthly welcomes a new deputy editor for digital journalism and celebrates a strong awards showing.
By Dan Goodgame
Arts and entertainment editor Josh Alvarez gets into the spirit of the story, no matter what he's working on.
By Dan Goodgame
Senior editor Dan Solomon reports on topics from the wacky to the weighty.
By Dan Goodgame
Three Texas Monthly staffers step into new roles as our storytelling expands.
By Dan Goodgame
Texas Monthly has a deal with HBO and is the new owner of ‘Texas Country Reporter.’
By Dan Goodgame
The premier entertainment brands are entering a three-year deal with the National Magazine of Texas that gives them a “first look” at articles and podcasts they’re interested in adapting as TV series.
By Dan Goodgame
Our creative director, Emily Kimbro, and design director, Victoria Millner, keep Texas Monthly looking good.
By Dan Goodgame
A half century after both media outlets launched, Texas Monthly will purchase Phillips Productions, the company that creates and distributes Texas Country Reporter.
By Dan Goodgame
Many new Texans quickly come to love what stirs the hearts of the native-born.
By Dan Goodgame
Barbecue editor Daniel Vaughn enlisted the largest group of tasters ever for this year's Top 50 BBQ list.
By Dan Goodgame
As Texas Monthly’s new energy editor, Russell Gold will dig deep into one of our state’s most crucial industries.
By Dan Goodgame
Mike Hall was recently honored for his incisive coverage of the Texas legal system, while Casey Gerald brought a singular voice to our cover story on Fort Worth singer-songwriter Leon Bridges.
By Dan Goodgame
J. K. Nickell, features director for ‘Texas Monthly,’ was instrumental in bringing this month's cover story to life.
By Dan Goodgame
Senior editor Paula Mejía, senior editor Josh Alvarez, and executive editor Courtney Bond plan to pursue compelling stories in the coming months.
By Dan Goodgame
Executive editor Kathy Blackwell and her team have chronicled the pandemic's impact on the employees and owners of Texas’s hospitality companies.
By Dan Goodgame
In this month’s cover package on the late Tejana singer Selena, we offer readers what we hope will be a welcome change of pace from our disaster coverage.
By Dan Goodgame
Two of our staffers have been ardent Hank the Cowdog fans since they were kids. Now they bring you this month's cover story on the creator of the beloved children's books.
By Dan Goodgame
Whatever your views are on hunting, I think you’ll find senior editor Wes Ferguson a clear-eyed guide to this timely topic.
By Dan Goodgame
We signed a deal to produce four books over the next four years. The first volume will go on sale next fall.
By Dan Goodgame
Texas Monthly is making big moves into film and television.
By Dan Goodgame
An ambitious politics cover package ahead of the 2020 election wouldn't have been possible without these key players.
By Dan Goodgame
How Skip Hollandsworth does it.
By Dan Goodgame
The team behind this month's well-red cover story.
By Dan Goodgame
Reader letters published in our September issue.
By Dan Goodgame
The former city manager talks about a dead rat in a gift basket, a poop sandwich, and her timely new memoir, ‘Greedy Bastards.’
By Dan Goodgame
Behind the scenes, two staffers with the same first name keep Texas Monthly running smoothly.
By Dan Goodgame
Senior editor John Spong is the brains behind our special thirteenth issue of Texas Monthly devoted to the life and music of Willie Nelson. The issue publishes in August.
By Dan Goodgame
We introduce you to Texas Monthly's newest editorial staff members.
By Dan Goodgame
When we started planning this issue, months ago, we had a fun lineup in mind. Then oil prices crashed and the coronavirus brought much of the state to a standstill.
By Dan Goodgame
And a special gift for subscribers!
By Dan Goodgame and Scott Brown
Robert Draper, like the people he interviewed for this month's cover story, is driven by a need to understand the past.
By Dan Goodgame
On two generations of talented storytellers contributing to our pages.
By Dan Goodgame
With our hit Boomtown podcast, Texas Monthly is learning new ways to tell stories.
By Dan Goodgame
Plus, feeling grateful for our gimlet-eyed deputy editor, Jeff Salamon.
By Dan Goodgame
On bee stings and boots—both cowboy and combat.
By Dan Goodgame
On Texas Monthly’s newest hires.
By Dan Goodgame
On the battle over Texas history, a serial killer in Laredo, and more in our October issue.
By Dan Goodgame
On honky-tonks, a collaboration with the Texas Tribune, and more in our September issue.
By Dan Goodgame
A letter from our editor.
By Dan Goodgame
A letter from our editor.
By Dan Goodgame
A letter from our editor.
By Dan Goodgame
A letter from our editor.
By Dan Goodgame
A letter from our editor.
By Dan Goodgame
Beginning today, we’re asking those who read our work online to do what our print subscribers have done for 46 years: subscribe to Texas Monthly.
By Dan Goodgame