Texas Tribune is a web site in Austin, Texas, USA covering local news, sports, business, jobs, and community events. Launched on November 3, 2009, The Texas Tribune is an online service covering news across the state of Texas. The service describes itself as "a non-profit, nonpartisan public media organization," and does not accept advertising. The Texas Tribune produces original journalism for its own web site and for its distribution partners. Any newspaper or television station can use the Tribune's content free of charge, and the Tribune says "we want to put robust public interest journalism in the hands of and before the eyes of as many Texans as possible." The web site is presented in the English language.
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Mondo Times editors Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 2:06pm on Friday, November 6th, 2009 | The Texas Tribune was founded by John Thornton, Evan Smith, and Ross Ramsey.
John Thornton, the chairman, has been a venture capitalist in Austin for nearly twenty years.
Evan Smith, the CEO and editor in chief, spent nearly eighteen years at Texas Monthly, a highly regarded magazine, including eight as editor and one as president and editor in chief.
Ross Ramsey, the managing editor, was the longtime owner and editor of Texas Weekly, the state’s premier newsletter on politics and government, which was acquired in July by the Texas Tribune.
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Mondo Times editors Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 1:49pm on Friday, November 6th, 2009 | In the New York Review of Books (Volume 56, Number 14, September 24, 2009), Michael Massing writes about the the Texas Tribune, which is funded by John Thornton, a venture capitalist based in Austin, Texas:
"...he's been able to raise more than $1 million from wealthy friends, in addition to $1 million he's put up himself, toward a goal of about $4 million. The Texas Tribune is scheduled to begin operations in November. Already, it's snapped up some of the state's top journalists, including Evan Smith, the respected former editor of Texas Monthly. Thornton has since become an evangelist for non-commercial news, urging his fellow philanthropists to invest in it because "the bang for the buck"—the satisfactions of improved coverage—is so high."
The full story:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23050
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