(Community Matters) If you haven’t become a founding member of the Texas Tribune, may I suggest you do? 🙂
A wee bit late; nevertheless, Steven and I joined the Texas Tribune staff & spouses for dinner at Julie & John Thornton’s. This new venture, a collaboration between the Thorntons and the Evan Smiths, really does have the opportunity to change the world, at least the state we live in. During the summer, I helped out by organizing administrative matters. What a terrific chance to get to know and support such an outstanding initiative.
A non-profit, nonpartisan public media organization. The mission is to promote civic engagement and discourse on public policy, politics, government, and other matters of statewide concern, and we’ll do this in two principal ways.
First, through the original journalism that we’ll report, write, compile, record, shoot, etc., and post online at our destination site, texastribune.org, and in the pages and on the sites of our distribution partners. (Ubiquity is a goal; we want to put robust public interest journalism in the hands of and before the eyes of as many Texans as possible.)
Second, through on-the-record, open-to-the-public events: conversation series featuring elected officials and other newsmakers, conferences on major topics of interest to every Texan, an annual ideas festival, and the like. The point here is that the in-person experience is itself a distribution platform, and once the event is over, the audio and video of what took place becomes content of its own, likewise available on our site and other sites.
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