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 is an occasional series about the inner workings of The Texas Tribune.
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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.
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T-Squared: Newsweek’s Mark Miller Joins Trib Staff as Editor
Mark Miller — most recently the editorial director of Newsweek and the editor of Newsweek Digital, and previously an assistant managing editor for Sunday and enterprise reporting at the Dallas Morning News — has agreed to join the Trib’s staff in mid-December in the newly created position of editor.
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T-Squared: The Mother of All Traffic Jams
You may be wondering what happened to The Texas Tribune on Election Night. *You’re* what happened: We had a truly unprecedented (for us) surge of traffic that crashed our servers.
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TribBlog: Happy Birthday to Us
Yep, we turned 1 today. (It’s not too late to send a card.)
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T-Squared: Apparently, We’re Generally Excellent
At last night’s Online Journalism Awards, presented as part of the annual Online News Association conference, The Texas Tribune was one of six sites to win the prestigious General Excellence award.
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T-Squared: The Times is Now
Today is the first day you’ll see robust journalism produced by the reporters of The Texas Tribune in the pages of The New York Times and on nytimes.com.
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T-Squared: But We Don’t Look a Day Over Zero…
On Tuesday, Nov. 2 — which happens to be Election Day — The Texas Tribune will have been live and online for a year. Hell of a good time for a party, yes?
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T-Squared: Yes, We’re Partnering With The New York Times
Now it can be told — more deliberately and more fully fleshed out than you may have read yesterday: The Trib has indeed inked a partnership with the New York Times that will result in the best of our content appearing in the pages of the most iconic newspaper in the world.