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Believing that nonpartisan news and information are crucial components of democracy, they created a valued source of news and engagement on statewide issues.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container white-bg"> <div class="inner-wrap-no-pad"> <div class="text-container large"> <h2>Introducing the Texas Tribune</h2> <p class="text text-on-white">The Texas Tribune is a nonpartisan, nonprofit media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container office-video"> <div class="inner-wrap no-float"> <div class="center"> <div class="video"> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150423192015if_/http://www.youtube.com/embed/m4RbuLrJV48?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&showinfo=0&rel=0&autoplay=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container white-bg stars"> <div class="inner-wrap no-float"> <div class="center"> <i class="fa fa-star black"></i> <i class="fa fa-star black"></i> <i class="fa fa-star black"></i> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container white-bg quote-one"> <div class="inner-wrap-no-pad"> <h1 class="quote-section black">"We all have a stake in a better Texas, and we believe The Texas Tribune is one way to get there."</h1> <h1 class="quote-section"><span class="yellow">- Evan Smith, CEO & Editor-in-Chief</span></h1> </div> </div> <div class="container section-arrow section-arrow-white yellow-bg"> </div> <div class="container section-header center yellow-bg" id="innovation"> <h1 class="yellow-shadow">ACCESS & <span class="white">INNOVATION</span></h1> </div> <div class="container yellow-bg in-backyard"> <div class="inner-wrap"> <div class="image-container medium left"> <img class="image" src="/web/20150423192015im_/http://anniversary.texastribune.org/img/Statewide-local-you-img.png"> </div> <div class="text-container medium right"> <h2>In Your Backyard</h2> <p class="text text-on-yellow">The Tribune’s coverage spans the state. But if you’re looking for information that hits closer to home, we have that, too.<br><br>We build databases so Texans can examine topics like public schools and hospitals on a local level. One of our most popular databases, the <a class="copy-links teal" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150423192015/http://salaries.texastribune.org/" target="_blank">Government Salaries Explorer</a>, helps promote local accountability.<br><br>We also bring statewide coverage home with our Election Scoreboard, which can be customized to feature hometown candidates and races.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container yellow-bg legislature" data-stellar-background-ratio="0.5"> <div class="inner-wrap-no-pad"> <div class="text-container medium left white"> <h2 class="white">Texas Legislature Uncovered</h2> <p class="text">The Tribune’s reporting has changed the way business in the state Capitol is done. As a result, Texans have found it easier to participate in the legislative process.<br><br>We’ve leveraged cutting-edge technology to connect millions of Texans with their state government. One example is the Tribune’s livestream of the 83rd Legislative Session and its subsequent special sessions.<br><br>With livestream technology, Texans could watch and listen to their elected officials in real time from anywhere and on any device.</p> </div> <div class="medium right stats"> <table class="white"> <p class="counter-label white" style="padding-top: 1.5em; padding-left: 1em; font-weight: 600;">Legislature Livestream Stats</p> <tr> <td class="counter-wrapper"> <span class="counter">473,103</span> <hr> <p class="counter-label">YouTube Viewers</p> </td> <td class="counter-wrapper"> <span class="counter">183</span> <hr> <p class="counter-label">Countries Watching</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="counter-wrapper"> <span class="counter">29,439,958</span> <hr> <p class="counter-label">Minutes Watched</p> </td> <td class="counter-wrapper"> <span class="counter">132,012</span> <hr> <p class="counter-label">Livestream Comments</p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container yellow-bg livestream"> <div class="inner-wrap"> <div class="livestream-image medium"></div> <div class="text-container right medium"> <h2>The New Normal</h2> <p class="text">The legislative livestream played such a large role in promoting transparency and accountability, we decided to make it a permanent reporting tool.<br><br>Today, <a class="join-links teal" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150423192015/http://www.texastribune.org/join/">with membership support</a>, we livestream breaking news, big political announcements, election night coverage, rallies, our own live events and more.<br><br>Livestreaming is a new-age solution for an age-old problem.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container yellow-bg stars"> <div class="inner-wrap no-float"> <div class="center"> <i class="fa fa-star yellow-shadow-color"></i> <i class="fa fa-star yellow-shadow-color"></i> <i class="fa fa-star yellow-shadow-color"></i> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container yellow-bg festival-quote"> <div class="inner-wrap"> <h1 class="quote-section black">"Quality in-depth and trustworthy reporting - I think the vision and impact The Texas Tribune has had on Texas politics is groundbreaking."</h1> <h1 class="quote-section"><span class="white">- Renee Mathew, 2014 Texas Tribune Festival Attendee</span></h1> </div> </div> <div class="container section-arrow section-arrow-yellow black-bg"> </div> <div class="container section-header center black-bg" id="accountability"> <h1><span class="white">Nonstop</span> <span class="yellow">Accountability</span></h1> </div> <div class="container black-bg short bidness" data-stellar-background-ratio="0.5"> <div class="inner-wrap"> <div class="text-container medium right"> <h2 class="white">Bidness as Usual</h2> <p class="text white">You don’t have to be an expert on politics to understand conflicts of interest and breaches in public accountability.<br><br>The Tribune’s award-winning <a class="copy-links yellow" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150423192015/http://www.texastribune.org/tribpedia/bidness-as-usual/" target="_blank">Bidness as Usual</a> project follows the money and takes another look at lawmakers and the ethics rules that govern them. As a result of this project, stricter ethics legislation was filed in the last legislative session.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container black-bg watchdog"> <div class="inner-wrap"> <div class="text-container medium left"> <h2 class="white">Watchdog Reporting</h2> <p class="text white">We’re holding your elected officials’ feet to the fire, and <a class="join-links yellow" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150423192015/http://www.texastribune.org/join/">Texas Tribune members make it possible.</a><br><br>Our talented reporters are interviewing, investigating and fact-checking so you get the full story. And as a result, citizen involvement is on the rise in Texas. Together, we’re creating a more productive, thoughtful and engaged Texas.</p> </div> <div class="image-container medium right"> <p class="counter-label white">Number of Reporters by Year</p> <img class="image" src="/web/20150423192015im_/http://anniversary.texastribune.org/img/TT-reporter-count-chart003.png"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container black-bg trib-investigates" data-stellar-background-ratio="0.5"> <div class="inner-wrap"> <div class="text-container small left tablet-hide"> <h1 class="quote-overlay yellow">"Justice was served."</h1> <h1 class="quote-overlay white no-margin">- Crystal Davis</h1> <h1 class="quote-overlay white no-margin">Tyler, TX</h1> </div> <div class="image-container medium right"> <img class="image logo" src="/web/20150423192015im_/http://anniversary.texastribune.org/img/TribInvestigates-white-logo.png"> </div> <div class="text-container medium right"> <p class="text white">The Tribune’s hardest-hitting investigative projects are labeled <a class="copy-links yellow" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150423192015/https://www.texastribune.org/tribinvestigates/" target="_blank">“TribInvestigates”</a> and provide Texans with new levels of accountability.</p> <h2 class="white">Hurting For Work</h2> <p class="text white">A recent installment in the TribInvestigates series is the four-part “Hurting for Work” investigation, which exposed gaping holes in the state’s workers’ compensation system.<br><br>This project resulted in immediate changes to Texas’ worker safety hotline and to the life of a young mother whose husband was killed in a workplace accident.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container black-bg"> <div class="inner-wrap"> <h1 class="quote-section white">"[Our judges] are unaware of any other comparably sized news organization doing this kind of watchdog work in these kinds of simple, yet smart, solutions."</h1> <h1 class="quote-section"><span class="yellow">- Investigative Reporters & Editors, Gannett Award</span></h1> </div> </div> <div class="container section-arrow section-arrow-black teal-bg"> </div> <div class="container section-header center teal-bg events-header" id="transparency"> <h1><span class="white teal-shadow">EVENTS AND</span> <span class="yellow teal-shadow">TRANSPARENCY</span></h1> </div> <div class="container teal-bg triblive" data-stellar-background-ratio="0.7"> </div> <div class="container teal-bg triblive-two"> <div class="inner-wrap"> <div class="text-container large"> <p class="text white">Free, live town hall-style conversations are an essential part of the Tribune’s DNA.<br><br>Our 60-plus events a year <a class="join-links yellow" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150423192015/http://www.texastribune.org/join/">provide Texans with the opportunity</a> to see, hear and question their elected officials, community leaders and industry experts directly — with no staffer or aide in between.<br><br>And to further advance access, we publish video and audio of our events online for anyone to use as a resource.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container teal-bg festival-video"> <div class="inner-wrap no-float"> <div class="center"> <div class="video"> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="//web.archive.org/web/20150423192015if_/http://www.youtube.com/embed/uFesBSiDMZE?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&showinfo=0&rel=0&autoplay=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div> </div> <div class="text-container large no-margin"> <p class="text white">The Texas Tribune Festival, our signature annual event, attracts thousands of attendees from Texas and beyond to learn about Texas’ biggest challenges and engage in thoughtful discussion about solutions. Decision-makers, industry leaders and community activists come to take part in shaping the conversation.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container teal-bg stars festival-stars"> <div class="inner-wrap no-float"> <div class="center"> <i class="fa fa-star teal-shadow-color"></i> <i class="fa fa-star teal-shadow-color"></i> <i class="fa fa-star teal-shadow-color"></i> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container teal-bg statewide-events"> <div class="inner-wrap"> <div class="image-container medium left"> <img class="image" src="/web/20150423192015im_/http://anniversary.texastribune.org/img/Statewide-Event-Locations-teal-final.gif"> </div> <div class="text-container right medium"> <h2 class="white">Statewide Events</h2> <p class="text white">With the support of Tribune members, we’ve taken kitchen-table conversations to a statewide audience.<br><br><a class="join-links yellow" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150423192015/http://www.texastribune.org/join/">Texans are coming together</a> in community centers and local college campuses from Harlingen to Beaumont to Lubbock to El Paso for face-to-face conversations.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container teal-bg stars"> <div class="inner-wrap no-float"> <div class="center"> <i class="fa fa-star teal-shadow-color"></i> <i class="fa fa-star teal-shadow-color"></i> <i class="fa fa-star teal-shadow-color"></i> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container teal-bg statewide-quote"> <div class="inner-wrap"> <h1 class="quote-section white">"[The Texas Tribune is an] accurate news source with in-depth coverage on issues that directly affect my community, my city and my state."</h1> <h1 class="quote-section"><span class="yellow">- Mitch Harris, member since 2013</span></h1> </div> </div> <div class="container section-arrow section-arrow-teal white-bg"> </div> <div class="container section-header center" id="community"> <h1 class="white-shadow">COMMUNITY<span class="yellow"> ENGAGEMENT</span></h1> </div> <div class="container audience"> <div class="inner-wrap-no-pad"> <div class="text-container left medium"> <h2 class="no-pad">Audience</h2> <p class="text">We’ve used technology to deliver a new kind of journalism: nonpartisan news that can reach more people and make it easier for them to participate. As a result, we’re building a community of more productive, thoughtful and engaged citizens.<br><br>Our current goal is to reach even more Texans — in all corners of the state — allowing them to be informed and engaged in the same way our audience has been for the first five years.</p> </div> <div class="medium right"> <table class="black"> <p class="counter-label black" style="padding-top: 1.5em; padding-left: 1em; font-weight: 600;">Launch to Date</p> <tr> <td class="counter-wrapper"> <span class="counter">48,640</span> <hr> <p class="counter-label"><i class="fa fa-facebook"></i> Likes</p> </td> <td class="counter-wrapper"> <span class="counter">174,137,209</span> <hr> <p class="counter-label">Page Views</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="counter-wrapper"> <span class="counter">93,000</span> <hr> <p class="counter-label"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i> Followers</p> </td> <td class="counter-wrapper"> <span class="counter">23,984,211</span> <hr> <p class="counter-label">Users</p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container short transparent members"> <div class="inner-wrap"> <div class="text-container small right"> <h2 class="white">Member Community</h2> <p class="text white">As a <a class="join-links yellow" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150423192015/http://www.texastribune.org/join/">citizen-supported organization</a>, our strength, independence and momentum come from you.<br><br>Our member community attracts everyday Texans who want to ensure the future of our great state. Thanks to our members, citizen involvement in Texas is on the rise.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="container white-bg newsletters short-super"> <div class="inner-wrap"> <div class="text-container large"> <h2>Trib+ Newsletters</h2> <p class="text">Our <a class="copy-links teal" href="//web.archive.org/web/20150423192015/http://www.texastribune.org/subscribe/" target="_blank">Trib+ newsletters</a> give our audience the opportunity to become experts on issues including water, public education and Texas politics. 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