Berenice Garcia in McAllen, Jess Huff in Lufkin and Laura Duclos in Houston are our newsroom’s latest hires.
We recently welcomed three journalists to our newsroom. Berenice Garcia, an experienced journalist and McAllen native, is our first-ever reporter based in the Rio Grande Valley, as part of. Jess Huff, who spent five years reporting for the Lufkin Daily News, is reporting from East Texas. Laura Duclos, a savvy audience-first journalist, will help us get our work out through new platforms, in particular short videos that explain the news.
From McAllen, where she reported for The Monitor from 2016 to 2023, Berenice Garcia will report on immigration, trade, agriculture and the Valley’s rich history and culture. She’ll bolster our coverage of Texas’ 1,254-mile border with Mexico. She’ll also play a key role in exploring the rightward shift in the Hispanic vote in South Texas during a critical election year. Berenice is a graduate of New York University, where she studied journalism.
From Lufkin, Jess Huff has written about topics from housing and property taxes to infrastructure and water since she joined us in October. She covers a vast region that extends from Texarkana in the northeast to Beaumont on the Gulf Coast. Jess succeeded our inaugural East Texas reporter, Pooja Salhotra, who has moved to a general assignment role based in Austin. Jess grew up in Utah and holds a journalism degree from Northern Arizona University.in Odessa, covering the Permian Basin.
Last but not least, Laura Duclos started on April 15 as our new audience producer, based in Houston. She comes to us from MediaWise, the Poynter Institute’s groundbreaking digital literacy project, where she focused on reaching younger audiences and wrote scripts and directed videos for its TikTok YouTube, and Instagram accounts.
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