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Amid rolling power outages, Texas news outlets are texting audiences with updates

Christine SchmidtDecember 5, 2019

Drawing on ten years of expertise, the Texas Tribune wants to coach you on its money-making lessons

“People just want to learn a playbook. At the high level, it’s motivational, but at the grassroots level, it’s answering what do your proposals look like, what does your budget look like, how are you talking to donors and members.”

Emily Ramshaw and Amanda Zamora are launching a national news nonprofit aimed at women and we’re dying to know more

Christine SchmidtNovember 4, 2019

How The Texas Tribune is revamping its sponsored content (and folding its five-year-old op-ed site)

“It was a good sandbox to see if there’s a market for these sponsored content pieces, to see how we’d treat them in a design and workflow way, to see if there’s an appetite for people who would pay for it. Now, several years later, we realize we answered all those affirmatively.”

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 16, 2019

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune are teaming up on a full-time, Texas-focused investigative news unit

“This is not ProPublica Texas. This is a very different entity — a cobranded, co-managed operation that brings together the natural strengths of two different but compatible organizations.”

Christine SchmidtApril 29, 2019

Product teams have taken national news organizations by storm. What’s happening locally?

“We’re trying to create great experiences for both our friends in the newsroom and our audiences whom we never meet.”

Christine SchmidtOctober 10, 2018

Venture philanthropy for local news might not be as scary as it sounds

The American Journalism Project, led by two top nonprofit news veterans, aims to propel $1 billion in annual investments to mission-driven local news outlets.

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 5, 2018

10,000 members, more big donors, new kinds of readers: Here’s where the Texas Tribune wants to be by 2025

“Ultimately, our sustainability as a news organization will depend heavily on…fellow Texans who believe enough in our mission to invest in it.”

Per Westergaard and Søren Schultz JørgensenJuly 11, 2018

54 newsrooms, 9 countries, and 9 core ideas: Here’s what two researchers found in a yearlong quest for journalism innovation

“Our angle on the current state of journalism is this: The crisis of journalism and legacy news media is structural, and not just a matter of technological challenges or broken business models.”

A look at how foundations are helping the journalism industry stand up straight

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