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T-Squared
T-Squared is an occasional series about the inner workings of The Texas Tribune.
T-Squared: Stars in our Eyes
Today we launch Starstruck, the Trib’s first fully immersive multimedia experience. It combines breathtaking timelapse video, sweeping photography and take-you-there audio — and represents a seismic shift in our storytelling.
T-Squared: TribFest Snaps
At this week’s Tribune Fest, we introduce our first Snapchat team. It will cover everything from the opening keynote to the closing party in a way, and on a platform, that engages young people.
T-Squared: Keep It 100
Today is the first day of our fall membership drive — a nine-day period in which we’ll raise, ideally, $100,000 to enable the sort of civic journalism you’ve come to expect from Team Texas Tribune.
T-Squared: Devotion Under the Dome
God. Governing. At the Texas Capitol, the two seem intrinsically linked. It’s why we’ve spent months interviewing dozens of elected officials and scouring hours of legislative footage to produce a first-of-its-kind documentary project, “God & Governing.”
T-Squared: Two New Trib Hires
We’ve got two great new hires to report here at Team Trib — a criminal justice reporter, Johnathan Silver, and an associate editor, Robert Inks.
T-Squared: Trib Wins Two Online Journalism Awards
Our efforts to add game-changing investigative reporting to our stellar menu of politics and policy reporting were recognized on the national stage last night with two Online Journalism Awards.
T-Squared: Get Your Tribfest Tickets, Early Birds
We’ve added big national names to our busting-at-the-seams lineup of Texas Tribune Festival speakers. For only one more week, tickets are available at early-bird ticket prices. Get ’em while they’re cheap!
T-Squared: Trib Wins Three National Murrow Awards
We’re thrilled to report that we’ve won three national honors in this year’s Edward R. Murrow Awards competition — an all-time high for us.
T-Squared: Walters, Collier Are Newest Trib Reporters
The Austin American-Statesman’s Kiah Collier will cover public education and the environment for us, while longtime Tribune reporting fellow Edgar Walters is our new health care beat reporter.

