Two recent alums of The Daily Texan will be honored as Rising Stars at the March 22 Friends of the Daily Texan Hall of Fame gathering on the UT campus. The Rising Star Award, which is given to recent graduates who have already made a significant contribution in their field, will be given to Ellie Breed, Chief Press Officer at the Public Utility Commission of Texas, and Eleanor Dearman, a Texas politics and government reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In addition, 9 honorees will be named to The Daily Texan Hall of Fame at the 11th annual gathering of […]
Read more →Editor’s Note: Below is the sixth installment of TVNewser’s The Producer I Can’t Live Without series, where prominent TV newsers and their longtime producers talk about their successful partnerships. In this segment, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin is recognized as celebrating his 40th year at CBS News. He’s also being inducted into the National Television Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Gold Circle honor society this evening after the 44th Annual News & Documentary Emmy awards in New York. To mark both occasions, TVNewser hopped on a Zoom call with Martin and his longtime producer Mary Walsh to learn more about Martin’s […]
Read more →A $60,000 grant to provide financial support to photojournalists at The Daily Texan at the University of Texas at Austin has been established by the Tejemos Foundation, founded by Austin residents Lynne Dobson and Greg Wooldridge. The funding will establish a $50,000 endowment to provide an annual grant to a photojournalist working at The Daily Texan, and an additional $10,000 for immediate needs. Dobson, who moved to Austin in the 1970s, worked as a photographer at The Daily Texan. A graduate of UT-Austin in 1979, she had a 25-year career as an award-winning photojournalist for newspapers in Ohio, California and […]
Read more →When you support scholarships for Daily Texan staff members by donating to the Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. endowment, who receives the money and where are they now, after graduation? Read below – in their own words – about 4 former Texan staffers who are examples of the importance of those grants that you help support. One student former student calls it “a lifesaver” for him and his family; another says, “I couldn’t be more grateful for the investment in my career and studies.” Since the Friends group’s first grant of $1,500 to one student in 2018, $41,750 has […]
Read more →An important message for alumni of The Daily Texan, and supporters of student journalism at the University of Texas at Austin From Board of Directors, Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. Today we are asking you to join our effort to fund annual and fully endowed scholarships for student journalists at the 123-year-old Daily Texan, the most award-winning student newspaper in the nation. Fully endowed scholarships will insure that the grants live on in perpetuity, long after we are gone. Five years ago the Friends group provided a $1,500 scholarship to a deserving Texan staffer. This year scholarships totaling $15,000 […]
Read more →Three Daily Texan staffers have been selected to management positions to lead The Daily Texan during the coming year. The new editor-in-chief will be Lucero Ponce, the Summer Managing Editor will be Kamryn Brownlee and the Fall Managing Editor will be Morgan Severson. Lucero Ponce Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Texan for the 2023-2024 school year Lucero Ponce is a rising junior studying journalism and Mexican American & Latino studies. Lucero has spent most of her time at The Daily Texan’s opinion department since her freshman year. She’s worked as a senior columnist and associate editor. Lucero primarily wrote columns advocating for underrepresented communities. During […]
Read more →By Jonathan Malesic Mr. Malesic teaches writing at the University of Texas at Dallas. April 7, 2023 In the debate over free speech and social justice, commentators on the right and the “heterodox” left often claim that college students are all either stridently liberal or cowed into silence by those who are. As someone who has spent two decades teaching at colleges large and small, public and private, I don’t recognize this description — and it’s not because I think that it’s conservative students who are dominating the discourse. In my experience, college students are all too reluctant to express strong […]
Read more →Three senior editors have been named to lead The Daily Texan, student newspaper at the University of Texas at Austin, in the coming year. They are: Editor-in-Chief : Megan Tran Megan Tran is The Daily Texan editor-in-Chief for the next year. Megan first began at the Texan as an opinion columnist during her freshman year and became an opinion associate editor during Summer 2021. During this time, she wrote columns and contributed to editorials on a variety of issues and advocated for on-campus changes to better support students from marginalized communities. This past spring, she served as Assistant Director of […]
Read more →Samantha Ketterer, Staff writer The Houston Chronicle The Houston Chronicle Editorial Board on May 9 won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing for a series on voter suppression in Texas. The top honor was awarded to writers Lisa Falkenberg, Michael Lindenberger, Joe Holley and Luis Carrasco. Mostly published in a series called, “The Big Lie,” their winning work examined and debunked GOP-driven falsehoods about voter fraud that have persisted for decades. Falkenberg is a journalism graduate of the University of Texas and a former staffer at The Daily Texan. “Our editorial team is committed to journalism excellence each and every […]
Read more →Eight staffers from The Daily Texan at The University of Texas at Austin have been selected to receive grants totaling $9,000 for the 2021-22 school year. The grants are sponsored by Friends of The Daily Texan and two sets of donors and are normally presented at the Friends annual Hall of Fame dinner on the University of Texas campus each fall. That dinner has been canceled this year due to safety and health concerns, and the Friends group is announcing the student scholarship grants via social media. The next annual Friends of The Daily Texan dinner has been set for […]
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