T-Squared

We’re overjoyed to announce that we’ve lured one of the state’s great investigative reporters back to Texas to cover criminal justice, the courts and the state’s regulatory agencies.

I’m pleased to announce that Tim Griggs, our loyal and dutiful Knight Foundation fellow these last six months, is joining the Tribune staff as as our newly minted publisher and chief operating officer.

Since the beginning of the year, we’ve been looking for ways to disclose more about the inner workings of the Tribune. Today we’ve taken the next few steps along a continuing path.

We’ve got a series of big staffing moves to report here at the Trib: We’re saying goodbye to a colleague, bumping up a few others and rolling out the welcome mat for a couple of new hires.

In recent months, we’ve heard a drumbeat from some of our most loyal readers for more information about the Tribune’s business model and editorial policies. We’re listening.

The holidays may be behind us, but we’re offering you one last gift: two free weeks of Texas Weekly, our subscriber-only state politics newsletter.

In case you missed it, today was the day we started livestreaming — the byproduct of our successful Kickstarter campaign last fall. It’s a huge step forward, we think and hope, for the way political news in Texas is disseminated.

Starting tomorrow, we’re merging the convenience of our daily email blasts and the need-to-know nature of the Brief into a single daily missive, delivered directly to your inbox first thing every morning. Sign up now.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise — we’ve been saying it for months — but by almost every measure, 2013 was The Texas Tribune’s best year yet.