{"id":242357,"date":"2026-04-09T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242357\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T18:25:07","slug":"kris-6-news-joins-propublica-texas-tribune-investigative-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/242357\/","title":{"rendered":"KRIS 6 News joins ProPublica, Texas Tribune investigative partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx \u2014 KRIS 6 News has been selected as one of five Texas newsrooms to join a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/atpropublica\/propublica-and-the-texas-tribune-launch-second-year-of-texas-investigative-initiativ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statewide investigative journalism<\/a> partnership led by <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ProPublica<\/a> and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Texas Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/6-investigates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">6 Investigates<\/a> will spend the next year reporting on state and federal efforts to restrict local control, working alongside the ProPublica-Tribune investigative unit and four other Texas news organizations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first year of our Texas investigative initiative demonstrated the critical role local newsrooms play in holding accountable the powerful officials of this very influential state,&#8221; said Vianna Davila, deputy editor of the ProPublica-Tribune investigative unit. &#8220;We are eager to keep working with local partners, so together we can be force multipliers and produce strong investigative journalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The other newsrooms selected for the program&#8217;s second year are the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/bigbendsentinel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Big Bend Sentinel<\/a>, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Houston Chronicle<\/a>, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kxan.com\/investigations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KXAN Investigates<\/a> in Austin, and the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas Observer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ProPublica and the Tribune launched their investigative partnership in 2020. Stories produced by the unit are distributed free to other news organizations across Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>KRIS 6 News, which has served South Texas since 1956, was recognized for Overall Texas Broadcast Excellence at the 2025 Texas Broadcast News Awards. The station&#8217;s investigative work includes its ongoing <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/running-dry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Running Dry<\/a> series on Corpus Christi&#8217;s water crisis and its <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kristv.com\/news\/local-news\/facing-danger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facing Danger<\/a> series, which exposed deadly design flaws on Harbor Bridge ramps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Tx \u2014 KRIS 6 News has been selected as one of five Texas newsrooms to join&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[92749,155,157,156,92750,3747,92751,8044,92752,92753,33440,45546,3602],"class_list":{"0":"post-242357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-big-bend-sentinel","9":"tag-corpus-christi","10":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","11":"tag-corpus-christi-news","12":"tag-facing-danger","13":"tag-houston-chronicle","14":"tag-kris-6-news-investigation","15":"tag-kxan","16":"tag-pro-publica","17":"tag-pro-publica-texas-tribune-partnership","18":"tag-running-dry","19":"tag-texas-observer","20":"tag-texas-tribune"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242357","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=242357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}