Before the Houston Landing even had a name, it was already powered by one of the biggest investments in any single nonprofit local news startup. A full year before launch, the project had secured $20 million in pledged funding from a coalition of local and national backers.
This week, newsroom staffers were shocked when Mizanur Rahman, the Landing's widely popular editor-in-chief, and Alex Stuckey, an early hire and Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter, were abruptly fired on Monday morning as part of what CEO Peter Bhatia described as a company "reset." Rahman and Stuckey had hired and mentored most other members of the newsroom.
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