Evan Smith

Video: Texas Tribune’s Evan Smith: ‘I Was A Hater, Then I Became A Zealot’

Mar 13, 2010 12:25 PM

One of the side benefits of coming to Austin for South By Southwest Interactive: spending some time at the Texas Tribune, the non-profit news site launched last November to cover statewide politics, public policy and government. The enterprise started with venture capitalist John Thornton, who recruited Texas Monthly‘s Evan Smith…

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Nonprofit Texas Tribune Launches With Budget Covered For Two Years

Staci D. Kramer

Nov 3, 2009 7:30 AM

Monday evening as the Texas Tribune raced toward its launch this morning (some elements aren’t live yet), Editor-in-Chief Evan Smith took me through the new nonprofit journalism site—news stories, databases, blogs, a combined Twitter feed for every elected politician in Texas, the start of a Texas politics wiki. Unlike some…

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Posted In: Media & Publishing, Non-Profit, Online News, evan smith, john thornton, texas tribune