Posts Tagged ‘The Texas Tribune’

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced a $975,000 grant to be used by The Texas Tribune and The Bay Citizen to develop an open-source publishing platform for online news organizations to use free-of-charge.

The two nonprofit online news sources said the goals of the platform they will develop are to enable other online news organizations to engage with readers, manage content, and raise revenue, and the platform should be inexpensive to implement, yet flexible enough to keep up the pace with innovations in the industry.

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Evan Smith, CEO and editor-in-chief of nonprofit, nonpartisan news site The Texas Tribune, shared some of the site’s statistics for 2010 in a post titled Lots of Good News in the Trib’s 2010 Analytics.

The Texas Tribune tallied 23,011,098 in 2010, averaging slightly more than 1.917 million per month, and the site totaled 3,970,635 visits by 2,209,958 unique visitors, or more than 184,000 per month. Its average number of page views per visit was 5.8, and 70 percent of its traffic came from Texas, with 23 percent from the state capital of Austin. Smith wrote:

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