Ross Ramsey

SENIOR ADVISOR

Ross Ramsey co-founded The Texas Tribune in 2009 and served as its executive editor until his retirement in 2022. He is well-known for his insightful columns on politics, government and public policy and for raising the bar on how Texas politics is covered and discussed.

Before joining the Tribune, he was editor and co-owner of Texas Weekly, reporting on the state government and the politicians running it. In the mid-1990s, he did a 28-month stint in government with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. Before that, he reported for the Houston Chronicle’s Austin Bureau, for the Dallas Times Herald (on the business desk in Dallas and later as Austin bureau chief), as a Dallas-based freelancer for regional and national magazines and newspapers, and for radio stations in Denton and Dallas.