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Please allow us to introduce you to our newest staff writer,<\/a> Austin Wood. In his time covering Dallas for the Lake Highlands Advocate, he showed a keen knack for covering City Hall and reporting on a host of other areas important to our readers. He\u2019s already given us some great things to read<\/a>, in fact. We\u2019re happy to have him join the team, and we think you\u2019ll be happy about the addition as well.<\/p>\n We asked Austin a few questions so that you can get to know him a bit better.\u00a0<\/p>\n How long have you lived in North Texas?<\/p>\n Pretty much forever, unless you count semesters away during college. The first place I lived was an apartment, maybe two blocks away from Medical City.\u00a0<\/p>\n Where did you go to high school and college?<\/p>\n Jesuit Dallas for high school. I\u2019d say it was a very formative learning experience. We had some talented teachers across a lot of subjects, which is especially beneficial when you\u2019re pretty far from being a polymath or chemist.<\/p>\n After graduation, I went to Texas Tech. No humidity was a pretty big sticking point when I met with my high school college advisors. Toward the end of my freshman year, I decided to pursue a career in journalism and, again, was fortunate to have several great mentors in the classroom.<\/p>\n What is your favorite thing about Dallas?<\/p>\n It\u2019d have to be the neighborhoods. Previously covering a neighborhood hyperlocally and being from here both give me an appreciation for what each pocket has to offer. It would take me a while to run out of new things to see here. Plus, being from a newer neighborhood probably made me appreciate some of the pretty diverse architectural styles we have in Dallas.\u00a0<\/p>\n You can also literally find a great bite anywhere you go. That, along with the fact that every block has something different to say, is part of the reason I\u2019m really looking forward to covering more of my hometown.\u00a0<\/p>\n What is your least favorite thing about Dallas?\u00a0<\/p>\n We\u2019re still waiting on an H-E-B.<\/p>\n In your time as a reporter, what are the topics you feel are most important to Dallas readers and why?<\/p>\n We\u2019re living at an intersectional time in Dallas. People have a lot of questions about everything from garbage collection to the future of City Hall. Budgeting on Marilla Street is growing harder with revenue caps, DART trying to avoid a mass exodus by member cities and there\u2019s still a lot of uncertainty about downtown\u2019s future. Not to mention everything happening nationally. So I think people are very curious about what Dallas will look like in 10 years.<\/p>\n It\u2019s also been my experience that readers want to hear how national events or local changes are affecting their neighbors on a personal level. I feel it\u2019s a lot easier for readers to contextualize things when you can deliver a meaningful human impact piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our new staff writer doesn’t smoke in the office, or use a typewriter \u2013 as far as we…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,1526],"class_list":["post-153961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}