T-Squared

It shouldn't come as a surprise — we've been saying it for months — but by almost every measure, 2013 was The Texas Tribune's best year yet. Full Story 

As the end of the year approaches, we respectfully ask that you support — for all the right and honorable reasons — your favorite non-profit news organization. Full Story 

Mark your calendars! We're pleased to announce the dates of the 2014 Texas Tribune Festival: Sept. 19-21. Full Story 

Starting this week, readers of Texas Weekly, our subscriber-only newsletter, will get an incredible perk: a breaking news blog aimed specifically at political insiders. Sign up today! Full Story 

It's the final day of our fall pledge drive. If you've renewed your membership or signed up for the first time, thanks so much. We couldn't do it without you and wouldn't want to do it for anyone but you. If you haven't, there's still time! Full Story 

If you appreciate the free and open-to-the-public events we host statewide, become a member today during our Fall Membership Drive. Full Story 

Between responsive design, data apps and livestreaming, 2013 was a big year for Tribune technology. Will you help us stretch even further in 2014? Full Story 

In advance of a new op-ed and discussion site we plan to launch this spring — and in a general effort to improve the quality of discourse on texastribune.org — we've begun moderating comments much more vigorously. Full Story 

The generous support of our members allowed us to break news and make news in 2013. Can we count on you again to help us realize our even bigger plans for 2014? Full Story 

Today is the first day of our fall membership drive. Here's why our crusade for smarter Texans and a better Texas is worth joining — and never more so than now. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

This weekend the Trib won one of three General Excellence awards given out at the 2013 Online Journalism Awards ceremony in Atlanta. Woot! Full Story 

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. Full Story 

John Reynolds, the Quorum Report's longtime legislative scoop machine and chronicler of behind-the-scenes political wrangling, will lead our burgeoning newsletter business. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

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. Full Story 

For our new demography beat, we've hired one of our favorite and most feared colleagues from the Capitol press corps: former Austin American-Statesman reporter and current Reuters national correspondent Corrie MacLaggan. Full Story