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T-Squared is an occasional series about the inner workings of The Texas Tribune.
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T-Squared: Year Five, Day One
Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of our launch — it’s not too late to send a card — so today is the first working day of year five. We’re so excited for what comes next.
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T-Squared: Excellent News
This weekend the Trib won one of three General Excellence awards given out at the 2013 Online Journalism Awards ceremony in Atlanta. Woot!
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T-Squared: TribuneFest by the Numbers
Now that we’ve emerged from our post-Texas Tribune Festival coma — mostly — we can report that this year’s three-day gathering was by far our most successful.
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T-Squared: John Reynolds is Latest Trib Hire
John Reynolds, the Quorum Report’s longtime legislative scoop machine and chronicler of behind-the-scenes political wrangling, will lead our burgeoning newsletter business.
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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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T-Squared: Why We Unpublished Our Prisoner Database
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.
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T-Squared: Griggs, Batsell Will Be Tribune Fellows
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.
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T-Squared: A Strong First Half
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.