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

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 as CEO and Editor in Chief. Smith and I spoke about the transition from magazine to web journalism, how Facebook and Twitter can—and should—be used for news, and ways to work with other non-profit journalism efforts across the U.S. A dozen of those news organizations will meet here in Austin next month under the auspices of the Knight Foundation to discuss just that. I’ll pull some excerpts but for now, here’s the video:

Staci D. Kramer

@sdkstl Mar 13, 2010 12:25 PM ET

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

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Nikhil Pahwa

Webchutney is a Capital18 investment, not an acquisition.

Prashant

What happened to webchutney ??

Kartik

Ananya the company is in investment mode as per their financials thats why there are losses on the book but their revenues have doubled. not sure if you have a clear understanding of how internet companies work or scale up. Most companies do not post profit during the first couple of years. thats the period usually spent on ramping up infrastructure, customer aquisition via online marketing or advertsing product improvements etc etc take a look at amazon, ebay or closer home rediff.com with most other smaller VC funded companies you never get to see the losses as they don't have to disclose it but trust me they burn thru millions even before they have their own monitization stratagy figured out.

Ananya Cooper

Web18 has posted losses this year again, and will continue to do so for next few years unless some clear strategy evolves.

The only decent products from these stable that have held some ground are Yatra (in fire from Cleartrip), Moneycontrol (in fire from Rediff Moneywiz), Tech2 and recent acquisition of BookMyShow.

Reshuffling & reorganizing cannot be a strategy to turn arround things, which they desperately need to. Going ahead they may again consolidate their offerings in next two years. The basic problem may be in the fact that the people leading this group are not amongst the ones who have defined/re-defined internet products.