"For the past four years, Melissa has served as editor of The Boston Globe's Great Divide team, investigating educational inequities throughout Massachusetts and leading coverage of Boston's school desegregation and the state's special-education system. Under her tenure, the team has won multiple national awards, including an Edward R. Murrow Award that recognized the newsroom for its overall excellence. She has been honored with National Association of Hispanic Journalists' New England's Impact Award and was recently recognized with an Amplify Latinx's ALX100 award."
"Starting Sept. 30, Melissa will develop and execute an expanded, ambitious editorial vision focused on closing information gaps, fostering strategic collaborations with other organizations and serving the needs of a growing Austin region. She'll work with Joel Gross, general manager of the new Austin newsroom, and longtime news editor Liz Pagano to create a team that will deliver on that goal."
Melissa Barragán Taboada will be the inaugural editor-in-chief of an expanded Austin newsroom launching this fall. She will develop and execute an ambitious editorial vision focused on closing information gaps, fostering strategic collaborations, and serving the needs of a growing Austin region. Prior to joining The Boston Globe in May 2021, she spent more than two decades as a reporter and editor at the Austin American-Statesman and launched two local newspapers in nearby communities. She served as an adjunct journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin and led The Boston Globe’s Great Divide team investigating educational inequities, earning multiple national awards.
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