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Dylan Baddour’s Biography

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Freelance reporter based in Colombia, focused on the Venezuelan migration. Former Houston Chronicle business desk and PolitiFact Texas.

Dylan Baddour’s Journalist Portfolio

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Colombia opens first tent camp for Venezuelan migrants, refugees

Colombia opens first tent camp for Venezuelan migrants, refugees

Bogota, Colombia - Jenifer Torealba arrived at Colombia's first migrant tent camp on Tuesday after walking ei…

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Venezuelans desperate for work have resorted to crossing the Andes - on foot

Venezuelans desperate for work have resorted to crossing the Andes - on foot

LA LAGUNA, Colombia - Diagnori Gomez was prepared to walk, but the cold still caught her by surprise. She'd l…

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Ecuador shuts its border to Venezuelan refugees amid historic exodus

Ecuador shuts its border to Venezuelan refugees amid historic exodus

Denny Gudiña spent seven days riding 25 different freight trucks to cross Colombia. He walked through the rai…

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Harvey drives tens of thousands to Texas shelters, where all people can do is wait

Harvey drives tens of thousands to Texas shelters, where all people can do is wait

Harvey has driven nearly 35,000 people to emergency shelters across Texas, including 10,000 who were holed up…

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Thousands flee Venezuela’s economic collapse, overwhelming Colombia’s borders

Thousands flee Venezuela’s economic collapse, overwhelming Colombia’s borders

TIBÚ, Colombia - Fradetsi Cedenllo sleeps on the concrete floor of a public sports complex beside hundreds of…

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"This is the worst because it's not stopping": the extraordinary Houston floods

"This is the worst because it's not stopping": the extraordinary Houston floods

HOUSTON - Susan Dickson, 71, stood on her driveway on Sunday with her husband, Russell, marveling at the flow…

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Articles

Corpus Christi gave $100M in water discounts to industry giants. Locals picked up the bill

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By Neena Satija Verified, Dylan Baddour Verified
| Texas Standard Verified
Corpus Christi city officials say that’s exactly what they’ve been trying to do in the city. And they’ve focused on large industrial users because those companies were for years paying a far lower rate for water than most residential and business consumers.
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Corpus Christi gave $100M in water discounts to industry giants. Locals picked up the bill

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By Neena Satija Verified, Dylan Baddour Verified
| Houston Public Media (Houston, TX) Verified
Steam billows from Valero’s West Refinery outside Corpus Christi in April. Cooling towers at industrial facilities can evaporate more than 1,000 gallons of water per minute. (Dylan Baddour | Inside Climate News and the Texas Newsroom) For at least a decade, Corpus Christi sold water to a handful of large industrial plants at a steeply discounted rate, according to documents and interviews with city officials.
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Texas’ refusal to plan for climate change created a crisis in Corpus Christi

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By Dylan Baddour Verified
| Houston Public Media (Houston, TX) Verified
“The water plan has to be realistic,” said Larry Soward, a former executive director of the Texas Water Commission. (Dylan Baddour/Inside Climate News) This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. This story was produced in partnership with the Texas Newsroom, the state’s network of public radio stations.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Student reporter at Reporting Texas, an online news publication at the UT journalism school overseen by old pros.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

There's a dilapidated typewriter in the Chronicle lobby and I toy with it sometimes.

What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?

#NotTheOnion -- my story got that hashtag when the Texas governor turned state troops on the feds. It seemed like satire but it was true.

Awards

American Society of Civil Engineers Excellence in Journalism Award

2017
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