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''The Texas Tribune'' is a nonprofit〔(【引用サイトリンク】work= Internal Revenue Service )〕 media organization in Texas in the United States. Headquartered in downtown Austin, Texas, it is devoted to increasing knowledge and participation in state government and public policy. It aims to promote civic engagement through original, explanatory journalism and public events.〔(''The New York Times'': Web Start-Up Has Its Eye on Texas )〕 Its website and content in various delivery platforms serves as an alternative news source for Texas, with a goal of supplementing mainstream media sources. ''The Texas Tribune'', like ''Voice of San Diego'' and ''MinnPost'' before it, is part of a trend toward nonprofit journalism with an all-digital platform. In addition to journalism posted online at its site,〔(texastribune.org )〕〔(''San Antonio Express-News'': Texas Tribune set as state watchdog )〕 and in the pages and on the sites of its distribution partners, the ''Tribune'' hosts 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, a college tour, and the like. ==History== The foundation was created in the summer of 2009 by venture capitalist John Thornton〔http://austinventures.com/team/teammember.asp?id=24〕 and veteran journalists Evan Smith and Ross Ramsey.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.texastribune.org/about/staff/ross-ramsey/ )〕 The idea for the organization originated with Thornton, who spent much of 2008 and 2009 promoting public interest in the concept of journalism as a public good. Thornton wrote, in July 2009:〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=What If: The Non-Profit Media Model )〕 In Micro 101, we learn that such "public goods" as clean air and national defense will not be produced in sufficient supply exclusively by market forces. Allow for the sake of argument that what I'll call "capital J" Journalism – journalism that takes on serious, complex issues and puts them in the context of how citizens interact with their government – is such a good. Thornton and his wife, Julie, contributed the initial seed money to fund the organization's nascent operations and began to raise money from around the state and around the country from individuals, corporations, and foundations. He hired Smith, the longtime editor of ''Texas Monthly'', to be CEO and editor-in-chief of the Trib, and the two recruited Ramsey, the longtime editor and owner of ''Texas Weekly'', to be managing editor. Smith and Ramsey subsequently hired several well-known members of the Capitol press corps to join the team: Matt Stiles, of the ''Houston Chronicle''; Emily Ramshaw, of the ''Dallas Morning News'';〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=D Magazine Frontburner: Emily Ramshaw Decamps DMN for Texas Tribune )〕 Brandi Grissom, of the ''El Paso Times''; Elise Hu, of KVUE-TV; and Reeve Hamilton, who covered the Texas Legislature for ''The Texas Observer''. Morgan Smith, formerly of ''Slate'', started writing for the ''Tribune'' in January 2010. Thornton raised more than US $2 million before the project was made public in July 2009. He invested $1 million of his personal money to the organization. By the November 2009 launch, the ''Tribune'' raised $3.6 million from more than 1,000 individual donors and at least fifty corporate sponsors. Financier T. Boone Pickens has donated $150,000. Foundations have also donated around $1.1 million, including a total of $750,000 in grants from the Houston Endowment and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Corporate sponsorships have brought in the funds as well. Most of the 68 corporate sponsors made a $2,500 commitment as co-founders of the publication, and it seems that this figure has not grown substantially since the launch. "In the coming months, we intend to become far more sophisticated in the way we market corporate sponsorships of both our site and our events series, TribLive," Thornton wrote. ''The Texas Tribune'' has been actively developing an open source publishing platform along with the ''The Bay Citizen'', specifically tailored for nonprofit news organizations like itself. The system, named Armstrong, was funded through a $975,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. It is based on technology the ''Tribune'' has been using since 2009.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-bay-citizen-and-the-texas-tribune-launch-open-source-publishing-platform-project-armstrong-funded-by-knight-foundation-grant-2011-10-24 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Texas Tribune」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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