T-Squared

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. Full Story 

You may have noticed that one of our more popular databases, the Texas Prison Inmates database, was disabled last week. We want to explain why we did it and when we expect to relaunch the database. Full Story 

Tim Griggs and Jake Batsell will join the Trib team as Knight Foundation-funded investigators of best practices in the news business. What they learn and what we learn will hopefully benefit our fast-changing industry. Full Story 

I'm a few days late reporting this — blame Wendy Davis — but the first six months of 2013 were extremely strong on all fronts for the Tribune. Full Story 

For our new demography beat, we've hired one of our favorite and most feared colleagues from the Capitol press corps: former Austin American-Statesman reporter and current Reuters national correspondent Corrie MacLaggan. Full Story 

We're so pleased to introduce you to our latest hires: Jim Malewitz, who'll be covering energy for us, and Neena Satija, our new reporter on the environment. Together they'll step into Kate Galbraith's hard-to-fill shoes. Full Story 

Our coverage of this week's historic events at the Lege was entirely in keeping with our mission. Your generous donations will help us carry that access, transparency and accountability forward. Full Story 

This week we say goodbye to Kate Galbraith, our chief reporter on energy and the environment. For the last three years she made our audience smarter, and she made all of us around her smarter, too. Full Story 

Good news, Trib fans: We've received a grant from the Ford Foundation that will enable us to dramatically expand our coverage of how precipitous demographic shifts are altering the public policy landscape in Texas. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

This is one of those weeks of the year when we make the case for modest support of our best efforts. It's an easy sell, or should be. Thanks in advance for your generosity. Full Story 

Ready to get your wonk on? Our three-day politics and public policy powwow is back and better than ever. Buy your tickets now, early birds, while they're still cheep-cheep. Full Story 

Maps have always been an important part of the Tribune's offerings, but today they take a leap forward by becoming bigger, nimbler, smarter and embeddable. Full Story 

Today we're pleased to welcome the arrival of a brand new sister publication: In the Flow, a free, twice-a-month newsletter about water and related issues. Full Story 

Managing editor Brandi Grissom's article in the new issue of Texas Monthly is the latest evidence of our healthy and productive partnership with the venerable statewide magazine. Full Story 

Twenty journalists have spent nine months researching the personal financial interests of members of the 83rd Legislature. Eyebrows — and hackles — may be raised, but this kind of transparency is good for Texas. Full Story 

Starting today, the Tribune is a "responsive" website, meaning it automatically resizes to whatever device you're on — and looks damn good doing it. Full Story 

The most observant Trib fans may have already noticed: There are some small-to-the-eye but big-for-the-site changes to how we organize news and information. Full Story 

Last year we logged record site traffic and blew through what we all agreed was an overly ambitious fundraising goal. We are truly grateful, as ever, for your support. Full Story 

Three-plus years of former Texas Tribune interns are out in the world, doing great work and making us proud. Full Story