From the Associated Press For nearly five decades, Marty Crutsinger has played a vital role at the Associated Press, chronicling a gallery of transformative events. A reporter known for his steady nerves, breadth of knowledge and boundless energy, Marty chased stories that brought him to extraordinary moments in history. From plane crashes, hurricanes and cruise-ship fires in Miami to Mikhail Gorbachev’s first appearance at a Group of Seven global meeting in London, fromcoverage of city hall to the statehouse to U.S. Department ofTreasury and the Federal Reserve, Marty’s career has hop-scotched across a half-century of assignments that required smarts, versatility […]
Read more →A new date – Friday, April 8, 2022 – has been set for the next annual Friends of The Daily Texan dinner. Dinners planned for fall of 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to COVID-19 health concerns. The annual Friends dinner has been held in recent years in the Shirley Bird Perry Ballroom in The Texas Union on the UT campus, and that venue has been reserved for April 8 next year. As last year, the Friends group will fund scholarships for student staffers and award those virtually this fall. Despite cancellation of the two dinners, the Friends group has […]
Read more →From the Hays Free Press Award-winning journalist Anita Miller Byley, who dedicated more than four decades to telling the stories of the people of Hays County, died Oct. 26, with her husband David Byley and family by her side at Ascension Seton Hospital in Kyle. Miller served as managing editor of the Hays Free Press for more than a year before ill health required her to step down. She worked at the San Marcos Daily Record for 39 years. A graduate of the University of Texas with a degree in journalism in 1975, she joined the Record in 1980. She mentored student journalists and […]
Read more →The Drag Audio Production House in the Moody College of Communication at UT Austin has released its season two podcast, “Darkness,” focusing on the serial bombings that took place in Austin in 2018. “Darkness” follows season one’s popular crime podcast “The Orange Tree.” “We released the trailer two days ago and it’s already climbing the true crime charts,” said Katey Outka, the associate director for The Drag. Outka oversees the day-to-day operations of The Drag and manages the students, as well as executive producing all of the podcasts. “The host, Ashley Miznazi, is a senior in the School of Journalism and Media, and she […]
Read more →From UT News AUSTIN, Texas — Experiential learning is expanding at The University of the Texas at Austin after Texas Student Media launched two new partnerships in which the organization will serve in an agency capacity. Texas Student Media will now provide support with a focus on developing new streams of advertising and underwriting to Texas A&M Student Media and The Drag, an audio production house in the Moody College of Communication at UT Austin. “We are excited about these new relationships and the impact they will have for our student experience, with new funding sources invested back into […]
Read more →From Bradley Wilson at College Media Review, the flagship publication of College Media Association, Inc., the nation’s largest organization for advisers and advocates of a college student media. Wilson is a University of Texas graduate with a 1989 bachelor of journalism degree, was on the issue staff of The Daily Texan and president of the Texas Student Publications Board. CMR is the leading academic journal on advising collegiate media in print, broadcast and electronic forms. CMR is a comprehensive journal for popular and refereed articles serving collegiate advisers of print, electronic and broadcast media. Local publications provide ample opportunities Yvonne […]
Read more →Researched, reported and published by staffer members in Voices, an independent news website that publishes during the Asian American Journalists Association’s summer convention. The Asian American Journalists Association’s Voices program provides college students and recent graduates the opportunity to work on ambitious journalism projects focused on AAPI and other underserved communities with the assistance of professional mentors. The following story was produced by the Voices 2021 investigative team and originally ran on Voices’ site. Of the 73 editors-in-chief at award-winning college newsrooms in the Spring 2021 semester, less than 6 percent were Black, and approximately 10 percent were Latinx — significantly less than […]
Read more →By Erin Booke Dallas Morning News Dotty Griffith, trailblazing Texas food journalist, Daily Texan Hall of Fame honoree, cookbook author and longtime restaurant critic at The Dallas Morning News, died Sept. 13 of pancreatic cancer at home in Dallas, surrounded by family. She was 71. She wrote a weekly restaurant and food column for Katy Trail Weekly until shortly before her death. As an adjunct professor, she taught a class in food writing at the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas for five years until this spring semester. Les Dames d’Escoffier, an organization of women dedicated […]
Read more →From the UC Davis Library Elaine Corn, an award-winning culinary journalist and author based in Sacramento, has donated her archive from more than five decades of food writing to the UC Davis Library. Corn’s archive includes significant materials from her years as a food editor and reporter for the Sacramento Bee and Capital Public Radio. Corn is a former Daily Texan staffer and member of The Daily Texan Hall of Fame. Corn is also the author of six books, including Now You’re Cooking: Everything a Beginner Needs to Know to Start Cooking Today (1994), which won awards from the James Beard and Julia Child foundations. […]
Read more →From Fashion Weekly Daily and The Daily Front Row In the latest attempt to resuscitate comatose gossip site Gawker, a new editor in chief has been announced. Leah Finnegan, who previously served as a writer and features editor at the online publication from 2014-2015, has been named as its new top editor. (Finnegan was the 2008-2009 Daily Texan Editor-in-Chief.) Now owned by Bustle Digital Group, it’s the third effort at bringing the snarky site back to life. Finnegan tweeted to confirm the whispers put forward in a recent New York Times media column, with the simple statement: “The rumors are true.” The […]
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