With the Dallas hospital that handled the first Ebola case in the U.S. saying it’s sorry for its mistakes, we begin our weekly playlist of songs inspired by Texas news with Gregory Isaacs’ “I Owe You Some Apology.”
Rodney Gibbs
Rodney Gibbs is the former executive director of The Texas Tribune’s Revenue Lab. Launched in 2020, RevLab helps newsrooms around the world adopt the Tribune’s playbook for financial sustainability, and it experiments with new revenue ideas, which it tests locally and then shares freely. A TV writer turned entrepreneur, Rodney founded and sold two digital media companies before joining the Tribune in 2012 as its chief innovation officer. In 2015, he became the Tribune’s first chief product officer. Rodney is a board member of the Online News Association, an organizer of Hacks/Hackers Austin, and a past board member of KLRU/Austin PBS, KUT/Austin NPR and the Austin Film Society. Outside of work, he’s passionate about film, record collecting and coaching his son’s baseball team. Rodney has a bachelor's degree from Rice University and a master's degree from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.
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T-Squared: Mirror Images
At this year’s Texas Tribune Festival, we partnered with Twitter to capture backstage images of politicians and pundits on the social media company’s Internet-connected, do-it-your-selfie photo booth.
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Interactive Timeline: The Perry Indictment
Take a look back at the events that led up to a grand jury’s decision to indict Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
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T-Squared: Twitter Happy
We’ve leveraged Twitter since the Tribune’s first days. Now we’ve collected our numerous Trib Twitter accounts in a single place to help you find your favorites.
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T-Squared: Born Digital
Between responsive design, data apps and livestreaming, 2013 was a big year for Tribune technology. Will you help us stretch even further in 2014?
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T-Squared: Kickstarting Our Livestream Up to 11
Our livestream of Sen. Wendy Davis’ abortion filibuster made for an incredible night of television. Today we’re launching a Kickstarter campaign to make live, unfiltered video the norm in Texas politics.
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T-Squared: Trib Fellows Launch NewsBiz Site
Today our Knight Foundation-funded Tribune Fellows launched NewsBiz, a website that — we hope — will start a global conversation around best practices in the business of digital news.
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The Playlist: Three is the Magic Number
With Gov. Rick Perry threatening to call lawmakers back for a third special session if they don’t pass a transportation bill by the end of July, we kick off this week’s news-inspired playlist with “Three is the Magic Number,” by De La Soul.
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The Playlist: No More Mr. Nice Guy
As Gov. Rick Perry puts an end to the so-called Kumbaya Session, we begin our weekly news-inspired playlist with Alice Cooper’s “No More Mr. Nice Guy.”
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T-Squared: The 2013 Session Scramble
The Tribune is thrilled to announce the 2013 Session Scramble, a Legislature-themed photo scavenger hunt. Think of it as Instagram but with cut-throat competition instead of sepia tone filters.
