Congrats to a super-smart QRANK: TT Edition player whose username is ThaddeusScott: He scored 99,711 points in February — more than 3,000 points better than the second-place finisher, KentWillis, who put up 96,505 points.
T-Squared
T-Squared is an occasional series about the inner workings of The Texas Tribune.
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T-Squared: Guess Who Got a Makeover?
No, your eyes don’t deceive you: The Trib looks different this morning — hopefully better. We couldn’t be happier.
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T-Squared: Competitive QRANK Starts … Now
The time to acclimate yourself to our daily news trivia quiz has come to an end. Starting today, everyone who plays QRANK: The Texas Tribune Edition competes for fabulous prizes. And I do mean fabulous.
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T-Squared: Our New iPad/iPhone App!
Late yesterday afternoon, Apple’s App Store kindly put our latest technological offering out to market: a brand new — and, naturally, free — iPad/iPhone app containing our news, blog posts, data applications and mutlimedia, our elected officials directory and our events listings.
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T-Squared: The Trib’s Next Great Reporter
Thanh Tan, a star in the PBS constellation, will join our staff on Monday, Feb. 7, stepping into the multiplatform reporter position that will be vacated in early February by Elise Hu.
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T-Squared: Bound for Bigger Things
Say it ain’t so: Elise Hu, one of the Trib’s best and brightest, is leaving us for NPR.
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T-Squared: Our Big, Fat QRANK Wedding
We’ve been waiting for it and wanting it for almost a year — and now the day has arrived. Finaliy, we’re launching a Trib-content-centric edition of the daily trivia game QRANK right here on our site.
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T-Squared: Our 2010 Stats
It was a very interesting and newsworthy year for Texas politics and public policy, so it makes sense that traffic on our still-new-ish site would be robust — but even we optimists at Trib HQ didn’t imagine that it would be this robust.
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T-Squared: Dear Earl Weaver…
There’s no way to put lipstick on this particular Oriole: We screwed up, plain and simple, in writing that you are “in heaven.”
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T-Squared: Donor Ask, Donor Tell
Today marks the beginning of an effort to more openly and aggressively disclose when donors to The Texas Tribune are — for reasons entirely related to their place in the center of the news — the subjects of stories.