Looking forward to the future of journalism

Express-News reporter wins prize for environmental reporting about eroding beaches

Receding Coastlines in Texas

Anton Caputo, the environmental reporter for the San Antonio Express-News, won this year’s Risser prize for his series about the impact of climate change in Texas. The $3,000 prize is named after James Risser, a Pulitzer-prize winning journlist who wrote about environmental problems that are unique to the Western United States. Anton wrote about shrinking … Read more

New web page: Express-News special reports

San Antonio Express-News investigative news stories

Our paper’s web guru, Fernando Ortiz, designed this new web page to showcase some of the best journalism at the San Antonio Express-News. The page offers a list of links to online forums where readers can talk about the stories, and it highlights the most recent project by Todd Bensman about gunrunning in Mexico. At … Read more

Welcome to John Tedesco’s journalism blog

John Tedesco, investigative reporter for the San Antonio Express-News

Hi, I’m a guy who works for that ink-covered relic called a “newspaper,” which you probably haven’t bothered to read if you’re my age or younger. That’s too bad. Because as stodgy as newspapers can be, there are days when they live up to their promise and show us what’s really going on in the … Read more