{"id":1414,"date":"2018-06-20T12:17:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T16:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/speaker\/alex-samuels\/"},"modified":"2018-08-18T15:06:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T15:06:01","slug":"alex-samuels","status":"publish","type":"ona_speaker","link":"https:\/\/ona18.journalists.org\/speaker\/alex-samuels\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Samuels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Samuels is the community reporter for The Texas Tribune. While at the Tribune, Alex helped revamp the &#8220;Texplainer&#8221; series and also spearheaded our first-ever Facebook group, &#8220;This Is Your Texas,&#8221; an online community for folks who want who wants to engage in a constructive dialogue about policy challenges facing our state. She graduated in 2017 from the University of Texas at Austin&#8217;s School of Journalism. 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