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Rodney Gibbs is the former executive director of The Texas Tribune’s Revenue Lab. Launched in 2020, RevLab helps newsrooms around the world adopt the Tribune’s playbook for financial sustainability, and it experiments with new revenue ideas, which it tests locally and then shares freely. A TV writer turned entrepreneur, Rodney founded and sold two digital media companies before joining the Tribune in 2012 as its chief innovation officer. In 2015, he became the Tribune’s first chief product officer. Rodney is a board member of the Online News Association, an organizer of Hacks/Hackers Austin, and a past board member of KLRU/Austin PBS, KUT/Austin NPR and the Austin Film Society. Outside of work, he’s passionate about film, record collecting and coaching his son’s baseball team. Rodney has a bachelor's degree from Rice University and a master's degree from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin.
Revenue Lab, the Tribune’s in-house research and training center, is hosting 14 publishers from around the country for a focused, 8-week program on the subject of creating and hosting successful events Full Story
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Today we’re adding a new, easy way for you to keep up with Texas news — an audio news brief waiting for you each morning on your smart speaker or podcast player. Full Story
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With a new in-house events space, we’re adding an audio-video specialist to ensure our productions look and sound great. We are also expanding our award-winning data visuals team. Full Story
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Today we augment our Public Schools Explorer — your source for graduation rates, test scores and other education data — with details about how Texas students fare after graduation. Full Story
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The UT Tower shooting is infamous as America’s first mass school shooting. Meet the survivors and heroes of that day in “Tower,” an animated documentary film. Full Story
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The University of Texas Tower shooting was a first of its kind. Here’s how the tragedy has been depicted in film and TV. Full Story
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While he says he’s open to being a running mate for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban often sounds more like Trump. See if you can tell the bombastic billionaires apart in our quotation quiz. Full Story
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The Texas Tribune is now on HTTPS, a security standard that's a big deal in tech circles, as well as for our users’ peace of mind in an age of phishing attempts and malware. Full Story
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This year, Tribune readers flocked to our coverage of some of Texas’ – and the nation’s – most controversial topics. Check out our most popular news stories of 2015, on everything from gay marriage to Jade Helm. Full Story
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At this week's Tribune Fest, we introduce our first Snapchat team. It will cover everything from the opening keynote to the closing party in a way, and on a platform, that engages young people. Full Story
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