. . . Texas Watchdog, the online source for the kind of Texas-based investigative journalism that newspapers used to, and still should, do.
Top dog Trent Seibert . . .
. . . wrote the valedictory last week.
[A] key donor for our operation in 2012, the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity, announced last year that [it] would not be supporting independent journalism . . . in 2013. We remain grateful for [the Center's] support.
We were unable to secure the funds we would need to continue operating as an independent journalism site on a meaningful level.
Although closing down our site is quite sad, I look back on our time launching and growing Texas Watchdog as a bright point in Houston -- and Texas -- journalism. Texas newspapers, TV stations and websites regularly partnered with us and published our stories. We truly regret that we will no longer be able to continue to fulfill our mission of providing them with free, nonpartisan enterprise and investigative journalism with punch and impact.
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. . . . Pound for pound, I believe we had the best enterprise journalism team in Texas.
Thank you to all our readers and donors who made that possible!
To which, "No, thank you."
The watchdog staff has now scattered to the Washington Examiner and other employers. Best to them.
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