Five days a week, we bring you the news. In Fact Daily is Austin's daily dose of city hall and local politics for those who need to know. In Fact Daily is an independently operated subsidiary of The Statesman Co. We stick to the facts. We strive to get it right and be fair to all; when we err we correct it fast.

Our Team

Jo Clifton, who joined the In Fact staff in November of 1998 when the publication was still a weekly. She became editor and publisher in mid-2000. Over the past 30 years, she has worked as a reporter, lawyer and judge. She has worked for the El Paso Times, the Austin American-Statesman and the Texas Observer, among others. Her email is editormail@infactdaily.com.

Mark Richardson is a veteran journalist with 25 years of experience in both print and broadcast media. He has worked as a reporter and editor for newspapers in Austin, Temple, Corpus Christi and Las Vegas, as well as the Associated Press. He has also served as a reporter, anchor and assignments editor in radio and television newsrooms in Austin, Temple, and Houston. Mark covers City Council, various boards and commissions and environmental issues, and serves as copy editor. He is a journalism graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. You may email him at mark@infactdaily.com.

Kimberly Reeves began her career in journalism in Houston with the story of Thirteen Coins, a topless club that opened a stone's throw away from Spring Woods High School. The community outrage led to the state's sexually oriented business ordinance. Little did Kimberly know, 20 years later, she would still be covering zoning—as well as numerous other issues—for In Fact Daily. After a brief stint as a high school journalism teacher in South Texas, Kimberly has written for newspapers and magazines in Austin, Houston and Dallas, primarily on business, real estate, technology and education. She also has worked in television in the Austin and Dallas markets as an assignment editor. You can reach her at kimberley@infactdaily.com.

Jacob Cottingham is a graduate of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York and was the founding Executive Editor and Publisher of Savannah SNITCH in Savannah, Georgia. He also served as the founding Managing Editor of The South magazine, where his editorial direction guided the magazine to 12 awards, including an individual recognition for Best Series from the Magazine Association of the Southeast. Heading westward, Cottingham traveled the country in a vintage Airstream for 10 months before deciding that Austin was the perfect place for him to live. His vagabond days behind him, he now writes for a variety of regional and national publications from the comfort of an actual home. You can email him at jacob_cottingham@yahoo.com.

Reporter and editor Josh Rosenblatt has written for The Texas Observer, The Huffington Post, and The Austin Chronicle. He is a lso the co-founding editor of UnfitTimes.com.

John Davidson has worked as a reporter and editor for numerous publications throughout the country, writing about everything from rampant wild boars in northeastern Pennsylvania to clandestine meth labs in southcentral Alaska. Before moving to Austin in August 2009, he worked as a freelance reporter and videographer in Philadelphia, covering urban design, planning and development, and local government. Davidson also works as an executive editor for Issue Media Group, a Detroit-based company that publishes regional and city-specific online magazines about new economy issues and emerging industries. You can email him at jddavidson9@gmail.com.

Mike Kanin is a freelance writer and editor who lives and works in Austin. His work has appeared in the Washington City Paper, the Washington Post's Express, the Boston Herald, Boston's Weekly Dig, the Austin Chronicle, and the Texas Observer. He's also served as the Washington City Paper's City Lights Editor and as the co-founding editor of Unfit Times.

Journalist Ken Martin founded In Fact in 1995 as a weekly. Four years later, Martin decided to expand the publication to five days a week. Ken continues his editorial work as editor of The Good Life Magazine.