Editor Ronell Smith News Today

The first time I was fired from a rural newspaper for reporting inconvenient facts — read: facts not in line with the newspaper’s monetary gains — was back in 2012 during the heyday of the opioid crisis. Of course, back then, we knew it only as the nameless epidemic slowly killing our grandparents who could afford

When a staffer with The Southlake Independent pinged Jessica Waller on LinkedIn, Waller thought she finally had the break she was waiting for. After several years working at small Texas newspapers like the Waxahachie Daily Light and The Paris News, Waller was hopeful that the new online blog owned by Southlaker Fred