We’re testing using AI-powered tools to provide an audio version of this story. While this audio recording is machine-generated, the story was written by human journalists.has overseen coverage of historic developments in Texas, including the criminalization of abortion and the state’s emergence from the most acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a state filled with big stories and big-league journalists, Terri stands out as someone who has done it all. For the Associated Press, where she worked from 1990 to 1999, Terri helped cover the 1991 Luby’s shooting in Killeen and 1993 Branch Davidian siege in Waco and was the lead reporter on thein Jasper.
Moving over to the Houston Chronicle in 2004, Terri covered the plight of a group of mentally disabled Texas men who had beenin the 1970s and paired up with Texas Tribune reporter Emily Ramshaw — later the Tribune’s editor in chief, and now the— to cover the abuse of foster children in residential treatment centers. She investigated how Houston became the center of ambulance Medicaid fraud.
Independent Texas reporting needs your support. The Texas Tribune delivers fact-based journalism for Texans, by Texans — and our community of members, the readers who donate, make our work possible. Help us bring you and millions of others in-depth news and information. Will you support our nonprofit newsroom with a donation of any amount?