Texas officials say all hostages safe, out of Colleyville synagogue; hostage-taker dead Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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Extraordinary Journalism
Fort Worth jumped on every angle of a day-long hostage standoff at a local synagogue. Sacramento told intensely personal stories of five homeless people lost during a year of overwhelming death. And an immersive-storytelling project by a team at the Miami Herald illustrated how decades of problems brought down Champlain Towers in Surfside.
Kansas City’s tale of the downfall of a local brand loved by Hollywood celebrities set a record for subscriber-only conversions. Tri-City’s exclusive on a local judge accused of harassment broke the record for smaller newsrooms.
Read on for this month’s edition of Extraordinary Journalism.