Faculty Ambassador

Michael Braga, MA

Michael Braga is a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist with nearly 30 years experience in the business. He has reported and edited weeklies and dailies, start-ups and 100-year-old newspapers. He has worked in the United States and in Latin America. He has written or edited stories that deal with everything from real estate fraud and bank collapse to violence in mental institutions and nursing homes to bias in the criminal justice system and exploitation of prison labor. Most recently, he was an investigative reporter and investigative editor at The Arizona Republic and before that a regional investigative editor for USA Today. Some of his investigative work includes: Breaking the banks, Insane Invisible In Danger, Bias on the bench, Torn Apart, Mesa Monkey Facility, The Prison Sell and The Bitter End. Braga is now a professor of practice at Texas Tech. He has a B.A. in history from Duke University and an M.A. in economics from the University of Texas at Austin. In December 2024, he began working on West Texas Watchdogs, a news service driven by AI and student reporting that provides content to newspapers, radio stations and other media outlets in West Texas and the panhandle.