Bringing Stories to Life
Meet three members of our acclaimed art department who make each issue of Texas Monthly a treat for the eye.
Meet three members of our acclaimed art department who make each issue of Texas Monthly a treat for the eye.
Thanks to our patient owners, we’re among the few publications growing in audience, revenue, and staff.
2023 was a busy, chaotic year in our state—with more happening than Texas Monthly alone could cover. Sixteen staffers selected their favorite stories from other outlets.
Now that right-wingers have forced out a top-notch journalist at my alma mater, I worry that future students won't enjoy the same opportunities I did.
The Pflugerville-based chain of local newspapers has somehow managed to thrive even as its industry struggles to survive.
The magazine’s back-page columnist explains the subtle shifts in his “Fine Advice and Keen Observations,” from 2007 through today.
On the occasion of his third cult examination, Guinn shares what he’s learned about the charisma of evil.
When I started writing for Texas Monthly in 1973, I didn’t expect it to last very long. But it’s still here, five decades later.
Fifty years ago, Texas Monthly was little more than an idea dreamt up by a local lawyer with minimal experience in journalism. Then it was an actual thing. How did that happen?
State leaders used to invite coverage of their activity. Now the Texas Legislature is making reporting more difficult than ever.
Fifteen staffers selected their favorite writing about our state that outlets other than Texas Monthly produced in 2022.
At the turn of the century, Mexican American publications paid a price for challenging the local sheriff and elements of the Texas Rangers.
From Leon Bridges’s home in Fort Worth to a vibrant coral reef near Galveston, this year took our photographers to some truly unforgettable places.
There was a lot of great coverage of happenings in Texas this year. Our staff selected its favorite stories.
The podcast dives into the mysteries surrounding the decades-long string of murders in the border city.
On this week’s National Podcast of Texas, the digital news startup’s CEO and co-founder discusses how a risky bet on covering Texas politics and public policy paid off.
In 2012 Austin Tice answered a calling: to become a war photographer and tell the world what was happening in Syria. But then he went missing.
Is it the best job in America? From the New York Times to Bon Appetit, everybody seems to think so.
The pride of Paschal High became the first living sportswriter to be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame on Monday night.
Long before Walter Cronkite was the voice of the news, he was just a kid from Houston at the University of Texas, chasing girls, acting in school plays, and drinking cheap beer. Yet Douglas Brinkley, whose new biography of Cronkite will be released this month, argues that it was in
In 2004 Dan Rather tarnished his career forever with a much-criticized report on George W. Bush’s National Guard service. Eight years later, the story behind the story can finally be told: what CBS’s top-ranking newsman did, what the president of the United States didn’t do, and how some feuding Texas
As the Mexican drug cartels have waged war along the border, they have also developed a disciplined approach to managing the press.
Karen Tumulty on writing for Time.
Is it really time to pronounce the body?
Karen Tumulty on writing for Time.
Over the past thirty years, I’ve edited or written more than 28,000 restaurant reviews for this magazine. That’s a lot of crème brûlée under the bridge, folks. So what’s my life been like, exactly? And how have I stayed this thin? Good questions.
On November 22, 1963, I was working as a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram when I answered the phone—and got a close encounter with history.
The East Texas native was the most prolific drug dealer of his generation. Now he’s in jail for life, but he says he’s freer than ever.
In excerpts from his upcoming memoir, legendary newsman Walter Cronkite remembers his days as a cub reporter in Houston and his introdcution to the realities of racism.
I started working for radio stations in El Paso at seventeen. I played records and ripped wire copy off the United Press International or the Associated Press wires and read it. Then, in 1954, television came to town; so my last year of college I worked for a local TV
If you believe the Fort Worth Star-Telegram obituary that says Jaime Woodson was one of the great writers of this century, let me tell you about the Corbet Comets.
Before the Dallas newspaper war, the Herald was full of character—or was it characters?
Oveta Culp Hobby has gone from a country town to a position of power and wealth. What she hasn’t done will also be her legacy.
Hugh Aynesworth can’t escape what he witnessed in 1963.
Hint: his initials are B.S.
Choosing the best features of Texas newspapers is a thankless job, hard on the spirit, and difficult for all the wrong reasons.