Two annual scholarships of $1000 each will be awarded to University of Texas at Austin students who are on the staff of The Daily Texan newspaper. The scholarships are being made possible by award-winning photojournalists John McConnico of Texas and Jean-Marc Bouju of France, both former Daily Texan staffers. The first recipients will be announced on October 4, 2019 at The Friends of The Daily Texan annual Hall of Fame dinner. Without The Daily Texan student-run newspaper, McConnico and Bouju may never have met and shared overlapping, award-winning careers in photojournalism. The Daily Texan nurtured them, just has it has thousands of students […]
Read more →Editor’s note: Below is a note that University of Texas and Texas journalism legend Griff Singer shared: a Washington Post story about the paper employing a number of deaf printers in the composing rooms. As the story explains, schools for the deaf frequently guided deaf students to the printing industry as an excellent place of employment. The story is fascinating, but also Griff’s info about deaf printers working at The Daily Texan. Here’s Griff’s note, and below it is The Washington Post story: The Washington Post has an interesting piece about how deaf printers, trained at a nearby school and college especially […]
Read more →Reprinted from the Corpus-Christi Caller-Times Greetings, Corpus Christi! My name is Pavel Alekseev and I’m a journalist from Russia who spent the past two weeks in your God blessed town. The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) involved me and 20 other journalists from Russia to participate in its global exchange program. The first three days we had meetings and lectures in Washington, D.C., then all members of our group were sent to newsrooms across various parts of the U.S. I’m happy that fate brought me to Corpus Christi, Texas. Here I learned what real hospitality is, experienced a baseball game for the first […]
Read more →The Daily Texan has new editorial leadership, including a new Editor-in- Chief, a new Summer Managing Editor and a new Fall Managing Editor. Spencer Buckner is the 2019-2020 editor-in-chief of The Daily Texan. A Plan II and journalism junior, he has worked at the Texan since arriving at UT, holding positions in opinion and audio. He hopes to continue the editorial board’s tradition of investigative editorials while expanding community outreach and input. When not at the Texan, you can find him playing and listening to music. Alex Briseño, a junior studying journalism and radio, television and film, is the Summer […]
Read more →Editor’s Note – The Longhorn Alumni Band – 300 strong with 230 additional along for support – was one of the lead groups marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day Anniversary June 6. Former Daily Texan staffers Gaylon Finklea Hecker and Susan LaRonde were part of the alumni band at the events. Gaylon shares her thoughts in this article. Also, attending as part of the band support staff was Rachel Davis, daughter of Friends of The Daily Texan board member Jim Davis, and her friend Sara Hemenway. Included with the article are photos by Gaylon, her husband Marvin Hecker, Rachel Davis and Sara Hemenway. The […]
Read more →A talented and eclectic group of honorees comprise the 2019 Daily Texan Hall of Fame class, including a former staffer who made his career in medicine and broke the racial barrier at The Texan in the 1960s, an expert on climate change, space coverage, environmental and science journalism, a veteran sports editor recognized as an expert on the Olympics games, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer honored for her work on violent human rights abuses against women worldwide, one of the nation’s premier medical malpractice attorneys, a beloved Houston TV journalist and a veteran TV producer who has won 17 Emmys and other […]
Read more →Three Texan staffers have recently received scholarship grants from Friends of The Daily Texan, and the 2019 winners will be announced at the group’s annual dinner Oct. 4. Forrest Milburn, who currently serves as the spring 2019 managing editor of The Daily Texan, was recipient of the $1,750 Friends scholarship grant at the annual Friends dinner recently. During his four years at the Texan, Forrest has been a senior reporter, news editor, associate news editor, associate social media editor and associate managing editor, focusing on digital strategy and audience engagement. He is a senior studying journalism at UT Austin, while also […]
Read more →Lorraine Branham, former director of the school of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin from 2002 to 2008, died April 2. Below is her obituary from The New York Times. By Katharine Q. Seelye April 11, 2019 Kelsey Davis was on the verge of dropping out of the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University two years ago. Her grades were poor and she felt insecure, doubtful that she belonged at such a prestigious institution. In sorting out her situation, she met with the school’s dean, Lorraine Branham, a longtime journalist and, like her, a black woman. Ms. […]
Read more →Friends and supporters of The Daily Texan, student newspaper at the University of Texas-Austin, will gather Oct. 4 for the annual Hall of Fame dinner, sponsored by Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. In addition to honoring new inductees into The Daily Texan Hall of Fame, scholarship grants will be awarded to Daily Texan staffers. The FOTDT in 2018 established an endowment for annual scholarships, and presented awards to three students last year. A total of at least 4 scholarships will be announced at the 2019 dinner. The dinner will be held in the Shirley Bird Perry Ballroom of The Texas […]
Read more →By Raga Justin / Journalism Sophomore UT School of Journalism From bustling Guadalupe Street to grand Darrell K Royal Stadium (and everywhere in between), the University of Texas packs nearly 26,000 employees into around 431 acres. In fact, UT can often seem like its own city in the heart of Austin, with hundreds of offices and departments scattered across campus. To reach across that divide, employees at Texas Student Media and the Office of Internal Communications recently created Texas Connect, a magazine geared towards UT faculty and staff with the goal of uniting the university’s permanent population. “We are so big…it’s […]
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