David Saleh Rauf is a senior reporter in the Hearst Newspapers Austin bureau, where he writes about Texas politics with a focus on campaign finance, lobbying and ethics.

David has been a tax and accounting reporter with Thomson Reuters in Washington DC and a a technology reporter for Politico. David also wrote for the business desk at the San Antonio Express-News.

He got his start as a general assignment reporter at a small paper in the Texas Hill Country.