The Houston Landing has lost a major funder

When the Houston Landing debuted, in February 2023, it immediately looked like a powerhouse in Texas media. Backed by over $20 million in philanthropic funding, it boasted a staff of around thirty, brought together by editor in chief Mizanur Rahman, a respected investigations editor, and top reporter Alex Stuckey, a Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist, both from the Houston Chronicle. The Landing’s ambitions gave it the heft of a national operation. It was focused on one metro area, yes — but the Houston metro area contains more people than Tennessee and is larger than Massachusetts. Within its first few months, the Landing broke stories on deaths in Harris County jails and covered the state’s hostile takeover of the Houston Independent School District. 

Now, two years after its launch, the Landing is a ship battered by storms. 

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