Dallas Express review: Deceptive business with repeated violations of basic ethics

The Dallas Express has been reported to have repeatedly violated basic journalistic ethics. It is a low quality website with dubious aims.

In an article in the Texas Observer, Paul Bryant, who worked as a reporter for the Dallas Express from October 2023 to July 2024 described the Dallas Express as "a political activist organization using its nonprofit designation as a newspaper to advance the publisher’s personal political and social agendas through what it considers investigative journalism and general news stories."

Emily Bell, the founding director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, described the Dallas Express as follows: “Effectively, the business model here is deception. It’s not just about them being partisan. It’s about them being dishonest and crossing basic lines of journalism. They’re not even doing journalism. They’re doing P.R., political advertising, or persuasion campaigns.”

The Dallas Express has repeatedly published stories about groups that its publisher has funded, without disclosing the funding.

See this article for details: https://www.texasobserver.org/dallas-hero-initiative-monty-bennett-crowds-on-demand/