T-Squared: Pooja Salhotra will cover East Texas for The Texas Tribune

Pooja Salhotra will be joining us as our first-ever East Texas reporter. She’ll be based in Lufkin. (Credit: Courtesy Pooja Salhotra)

​We are thrilled to announce that Pooja Salhotra will be joining The Texas Tribune as our first-ever East Texas reporter. She’ll be based in Lufkin and will cover a vast region that borders on three states (Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma); encompasses diverse communities such as Beaumont, Longview, Marshall, Nacogdoches, Texarkana and Tyler; and is home to the legendary Piney Woods and the Big Thicket.

This is a big job, one that will require frequent travel. Pooja emerged through a highly competitive process that surfaced other strong candidates.