
Sharon Grigsby
@sharonfgrigsby
Senior writer & co-founder of The Lab Report, an independent nonprofit newsroom powered by CPAL. Formerly, longtime @dallasnews reporter, editor.
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08-03-2012 00:50:29
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I'm glad I was able to devote one of my last Dallas Morning News columns to an important goal of mine these last six years -- helping tell the the long-neglected but vital stories of Dallas history. Remembering Black Dallas, Inc. Dr. Ed Gray dallasnews.com/news/commentar…

Walking away from the Dallas Morning News city columnist job took a lot of courage. Here are my thoughts on why I am making a change. dallasnews.com/news/commentar…



Our nonprofit newsroom adventure grows! So excited to be sharing this next chapter with Matt Matt Goodman Goodman, who is at the top of the list of local journalists I most admire and whom I've wanted to work alongside for almost a decade. D Magazine dmagazine.com/frontburner/20…

.Matt Goodman's post also provides more details about what we are up to with soon-to-launch The Lab Report: Dallas, independent journalism powered by the Child Poverty Action Lab.

🧵 Life news!: I’m leaving Dallas Morning News after 4.5 great years, but I’m not going far. I’m thrilled to announce I’m joining Sharon Grigsby and Matt Goodman at The Lab Report Dallas, an independent newsroom powered by the Child Poverty Action Lab. labreportdallas.org


Thank you to Elizabeth Wattley, Matrice Kirk, and Sharon Grigsby for joining us at the Dallas Breakfast Group for a powerful, important—if sometimes challenging—conversation about bridging the divides that persist in our community. Forest Forward is doing more than restoring a


Sharon spent 6 months with North Texas nonprofits navigating uncertainty amid federal cuts, layoffs, and delayed reimbursements. The effect is already being felt in the form of 33 million fewer meals, reduced stipends, fewer kids at summer camp, and more: labreportdallas.com/p/the-safety-n…

My Lab Report colleague Kelli Smith highlights in this thread the journalism we've begun to produce. I hope you'll sign up so you're among the first to see our exception—and free—work.

Amid the million things Matt Goodman is orchestrating to get The Lab Report's website launched this fall (the design is SO good!) he's still making time to do kick-ass journalism.

The Lab Report is an editorially independent division of the nonprofit Child Poverty Action Lab, which does critical work to help Dallas curb childhood poverty and make the region better for families. Our publisher, Alan Cohen, introduced the idea here. labreportdallas.com/p/publisher-no…

