T-Squared

I'm pleased to report that next Friday, Oct. 15, the Trib — in partnership with Austin public radio station KUT and Austin public televison station KLRU — will present separate hour-long interviews with Democrat Bill White and Republican Rick Perry. The interviews will take place at KLRU's Austin City Limits studio before a live audience. Full Story 

Coming this Sunday: the latest collaboration between the Trib and one of the state's venerable newspapers. Full Story 

Six weeks and counting: November 3, 2010, is the day when we reset the Trib membership clock to zero, when anyone who's been with us for a year or more needs to stand with us again to remain an active member. There are a bunch of good reasons to re-up. Full Story 

Last week, the Trib presented the Texas premiere of My Trip to Al-Qaeda, a new documentary that aired on HBO tonight. After the screening, I interviewed the filmmakers, director Alex Gibney and author and journalist (and Austinite) Lawrence Wright. Full Story 

NPR's Weekend Edition shows the Trib a little love. Will you? Full Story 

Our remarkable crop of summer interns — optimistic and high-spirited at a low moment for our business — are the future of this thing we do. Their schools should be proud of what they accomplished over the last two months. They themselves should be. We certainly are. Full Story 

Monthly uniques and page views are much higher than we projected; more of our visitors are from outside Austin than we ever could have hoped; and our search engine optimization strategy is paying off: All is better-than-well here at the Trib. Full Story 

Today we're publishing the first of three stories in a series that is the result of a partnership between the El Paso Times and the Trib — a show of the "hang together" spirit bolstering public service journalism in the 21st century. Full Story 

Effective immediately, inspired by ProPublica, we've added a "republish" button on most of our pages. Full Story 

This morning we learned that the Tribune won two national Edward R. Murrow Awards: for best use of video by a local news operation — for Elise Hu's Stump Interrupted series — and for best website. Yes, we're psyched. Full Story 

“On some wide-ranging stories, two news organizations are certainly better than one in pursing the truth,” Houston Chronicle editor Jeff Cohen says. We couldn't agree more. Full Story 

Coming this Sunday, the first of hopefully many joint projects between the Tribune and the Houston Chronicle will see publication — both on our site and on the Chron's front page. Full Story 

Effective today, the Trib has a dedicated energy reporter on staff: Kate Galbraith, formerly of The Economist and The New York Times. Full Story 

As we fan out across the state to solicit memberships, major gifts and corporate underwriting, we're hearing only good things about the size of our audience — a 25 million page view run rate in the first year is no small potatoes — but we're increasingly getting questions about who that audience is. Who's reading the Trib? Full Story 

This afternoon we pushed changes to the Trib site that better and more aggressively incorporate aspects of Facebook into our, and your, everyday lives. Full Story 

Last week we celebrated our half-year birthday — and what we've learned from then until now is truly mind-blowing, beginning with the information we've gleaned about the size of our audience (huge), where they come from (everywhere), and what areas of the site they like best (data). Full Story 

Because they're already public. Because we're about transparency, open government, and greater access to information. Because you have a right to know how your tax dollars are being spent. Etc. Full Story 

Now it can be told: The Governor of Texas is on the cover of this week's issue of the venerable newsmagazine as part of its first-ever collaboration with The Texas Tribune. Full Story 

Thrills! Spills! Live Runoff coverage tonight! Full Story 

We've more than exceeded our goals for monthly unique visitors and page views — and way, way, way ahead of schedule. For that, we have you, Randy Neugebauer, and Gay Jesus to thank, among others. Full Story