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John Thornton is the founder of the Texas Tribune, the non-profit, non-partisan public media organization that will launch later this year. He is also a General Partner at Austin Ventures, a Texas-based venture capital firm focusing on software investing and firm strategy. Previously, John was with McKinsey & Co., where he served clients in the U.S. and Europe.

John received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and his BA summa cum laude from Trinity University, where he graduated first in his class. He is a current advisory board member of Ballet Austin and The Harry Ransom Center, a founding board member of the Entrepreneur's Foundation, and a former trustee of both Trinity University and the Austin Museum of Art.

John's personal blog can be found at Insomniactive.

Blog Entries by John Thornton

Attention Non-Profit Newsies: Alan Mutter Thinks We're Fantastic

Posted March 30, 2010 | 16:30:50 (EST)

Alan Mutter is one of the keenest observers of today's topsy turvy media landscape. I am therefore pleased that he payed me a compliment on his highly trafficked Newsosaur blog today:

An amazing number of smart and sophisticated people continue to harbor the fantasy that philanthropic contributions can...
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Jack Shafer: Concerned About My Bank Balance, and Knows My Inner Motivations. Where Have You Been All My Life?

Posted October 1, 2009 | 10:28:37 (EST)

The whole spiel really is all a little touching, and quite impressive-especially the psychoanalysis part. What it isn't is new. Or maybe commercial media pundits have been relieved of the burden of editors who say things like, "wait, haven't I seen that before? And before. And before?" Like about...

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What If: The Non-Profit Media Model

Posted July 30, 2009 | 20:25:30 (EST)

TechCrunch honcho Michael Arrington deserves much applause for his July 30 post, "What If: The New New York Times." In it, he ponders what might happen if the top 10% of the venerable New York Times' reporters went on walkabout and set up their own purely digital shop.

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