Jack Herrera is a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times based in Austin, Texas, where he covers a changing American West. Before coming to The Times, he was a senior editor at Texas Monthly, where he reported on immigration, borderlands and Mexican American communities across the state. Before that, he was a contributing editor for Politico Magazine, based in San Francisco. In 2022, the American Society of Magazine Editors awarded him an ASME Next Award for Journalists Under 30.
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