As the year closes, please take a moment and ask: what does The Daily Texan mean to you? Perhaps: It’s where you wrote that terrific story that you still think about on occasion. It’s where you learned to work together as a team. It was your personal launching pad into journalism. It gave you the communication skills and other knowledge to purse another type career. It taught you to ask questions with expertise and authority, and never shirk from those in power. It’s where you met your spouse, or a new college roommate. It’s where you learned about the sanctity […]
Read more →You decide: what was the most memorable moment during the recent Friends of The Daily Texan annual dinner? Consider these words from the 2019 Hall of Fame inductees: New York Times climate change and science reporter John Schwartz telling the crowd how he coveted and treasured the label he hears often: “nerd”. When Leon McNealy, one of the first African Americans to work at The Texan, described what it was like to be at the forefront of the civil rights movement in Austin and beyond, and the message he delivered – in song – abut the continuing struggle for equality. […]
Read more →Daily Texan alumna Laura Beil, who created the popular Dr. Death podcast and the upcoming podcast “Bad Batch,” will be on the UT campus at Moody College of Communication on Oct. 24 for “A Conversation With Laura Beil.” She joins Haley Butler, also a Daily Texan alum and now senior producer for The Drag, a Moody College audio production house, for the discussion to be held in BMC 2.106. Dr. Death is a 2018 podcast produced by Wondery that tells the story of Christopher Duntsch, a Texas surgeon who was convicted of gross malpractice after thirty-one of his patients were left seriously injured after […]
Read more →Tickets are still available for the 7th annual Friends of The Daily Texan Hall of Fame dinner – and reunion of staff and supporters of The Daily Texan – to be held Friday, Oct. 4 on the University of Texas campus. Social hour begins at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. in the Shirley Bird Perry Ballroom of The Texas Union. You may register by going to this link: https://friendsdailytexan.wildapricot.org/event-3409008 All proceeds go to financially assist The Texan, funding such projects as buildout of the online archive for all Texan issues back to its founding in 1900, scholarships […]
Read more →What’s new at the 7th annual Friends of the Daily Texan Hall of Fame dinner Oct. 4 in Austin? The new: The latest from Dean Jay Bernhardt on the innovative work of Moody College of Communication this past year. Six deserving Texan staffers will receive scholarship grants at the dinner; that’s three new ones since last year. Two new scholarships will be unveiled – the Becky and Jerry Conn Scholarship and the John McConnico and Jean-Mark Bouju scholarships. They join the Friends of The Daily Texan Achievement Awards as scholarships now available to Texan staffers. An update from Gerald A. […]
Read more →For 38 years, a former Texan staffer-turned-author and a co-author colleague have labored to produce what they informally called “The Book,” a collection of interviews and reporting about well-known native Texans. Next year their book – titled “Growing Up in the Lone Star State, Notable Texans Remember Their Childhoods” – will be published by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. The book takes a unique look at how their childhood influenced these notable Texas natives. “The emphasis is exclusively on how they grew up . . . premise being that good, bad, or indifferent your childhood experiences mold you into the […]
Read more →Do you have a journalistic treasure hiding in your closet? A book you’ve written that just needs your signature to become a keepsake for someone? A treasure from The Daily Texan you are ready to pass along, in the hope of helping The Texan financially? The Oct. 4 Friends of The Daily Texan Annual Dinner and Hall of Fame will once again feature a Silent Auction. Donations are currently being accepted. The dinner will begin at 6 p.m. with a reception, followed by dinner and the event at 7 p.m. in the Shirley Bird Perry Ballroom of The Texas Union […]
Read more →The vendor that scans and hosts The Daily Texan is now fully up to date in building the online archives, which now serves as a repository of every Texan issue back to its founding in 1900. “Our digital archives reflect day one of the Texan, through August of 2019, said Gerald A. Johnson, Director or Texas Student Media. “Our campus community is especially thrilled with the archive. Whether you work in administration, development or academics – a trip into the archives can help you with your research, special anniversaries, prepare for a visit from a Texas-Ex and more.” The digital archives went online several months […]
Read more →Ayesha Rascoe, White House correspondent for National Public Radio, will be the honoree for the 2019 Mary Alice Davis Distinguished Lecture in Journalism at UT-Austin. The program, which will feature questions from a panel of students and educators, will take place on Monday, Oct. 28, at the Belo Center for New Media Auditorium, with the time tentatively scheduled for 5:30 p.m. More details will come later. The lecture program honors Mary Alice Davis, who retired as an Austin American-Statesman columnist and editorial writer in 2002. After her death from ovarian cancer in 2004, her husband, Jim Davis, and daughter, Rachel […]
Read more →For almost a decade, Gaylon Finklea Hecker (BJ ’72) edited Austin’s monthly tabloid, The Jewish Outlook, chronicling contemporary local news from the Jewish community that had recently begun exploding due in part to the influx of high-tech jobs in Central Texas. Austin’s Jewish history from 1989 to late 1998 exists no other place, at least in this month-to-month detail. And now it has found a new home where researchers will be able to use this wealth of information along with that of the Texas Jewish Historical Society. Finklea Hecker has donated a hard copy of every issue of The Jewish […]
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