Dan Katz

dan@tpr.org As TPR’s news director, Katz leads the organization’s news and journalism efforts, overseeing the newsroom’s day-to-day management and the development of a strategic vision for the news division. He also serves on the organization’s executive leadership team. TPR’s news team currently has 20 staff members, including reporters dedicated to in-depth coverage of subjects including arts & culture, bioscience & medicine, education, technology & entrepreneurship, military & veterans issues and state government. Previously, Katz served as the news director of WSHU Public Radio in Fairfield, Connecticut, and as a reporter, producer, and on-air host at WUFT in Gainesville, Florida. Tres migrantes se ahogan en el Río Grande después de que Texas impidió rescate de la Patrulla Fronteriza A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass on Friday night as they were attempting to cross the U.S. southern border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection told TPR that Border Patrol was prevented from deploying lifesaving efforts by agents with Operation Lone Star, the controversial Texas border security initiative. La Operación Lone Star del gobernador Abbott tomó el control de un parque público en la frontera durante la noche, los residentes protestan Eagle Pass residents were surprised Wednesday night to learn that Gov. Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star has once again seized control of their public park. El Partido Republicano lleva su lucha migratoria a Eagle Pass. In his first visit to the border as House Speaker, Mike Johnson said the GOP is willing to shut down the government if negotiations between the Biden administration and Senate Republicans don’t go far enough to deter illegal immigration. Alcalde de Chicago: el gobernador Greg Abbott está 'sembrando semillas de caos' con el traslado de migrantes. Brandon Johnson spoke the CBS’s 'Face the Nation' about the influx of migrants the city has received because of Abbott's ongoing efforts to bus and fly migrants out of Texas.