Dominic Anthony Walsh

Dominic Anthony Walsh covers education & culture for Houston Public Media’s enterprise team. His work examines the institutions and policies affecting millions of students and families across Texas, with a focus on Houston — home to the largest school district in the state.

He comes to the Bayou City after editing and reporting arts & culture stories at the NPR station in Aspen, Colorado, where his coverage of alleged censorship at the town’s paper-of-record was cited by Poynter and in The Atlantic. He also learned to ski (and reported from the slopes).

Dominic’s hometown is San Antonio, where he got his broadcasting start in 2016 at KRTU — Trinity University’s jazz-by-day, indie-by-night station. He also interned at Texas Public Radio, where he went on to cover energy, the environment and public health as a Report For America corps member. He contributed to two national Edward R. Murrow Award-winning teams — covering protests and the pandemic in 2020 and reporting on the state’s deadly electric grid failure in 2021. He produced podcasts and radio documentaries recognized by Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Public Media Journalists Association, Texas Medical Association, the Association of Healthcare Journalists and the Society of Environmental Journalists.

His voice has been heard on programs from NPR, American Public Media and the BBC — as well as echoing through the streets of Midtown late at night, when his dog loves to play the “run-away-into-traffic” game.