Houston Chronicle Shuts Down Mexico City Bureau, Marks "End of an Era"

Posted: 10/23/2012  |  By: Zach Dyer | Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas

The Houston Chronicle unceremoniously closed its Mexico City bureau and fired veteran foreign correspondent and bureau chief Dudley Althaus on Friday, Oct. 19, reported McClatchy Newspapers’ Tim Johnson on the blog Mexico Unmasked on Sunday, Oct. 21. Althaus had been in Mexico City for 23 years.