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 →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 →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 →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 →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 →University of Texas Journalism school legend Griff Singer and his wife Evelyn have been honored with dedication of the journalism foyer in the Belo Center for New Media in recognition of their achievements. Singer was a long-time professor in the journalism school, and also had a distinguished career at the Dallas Morning News and other papers. His wife Evelyn was a long distance runner and former teacher; she died in 2018 after a 14-year battle with cancer. The dedication of the foyer was made recently, and Singer remarked to those attending that he was “really lucky” to have known his UT family for […]
Read more →The board of directors of Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. has established a set of fund-raising goals for 2019 to benefit The Daily Texan, and is encouraging donations as 2018 comes to a close. Donations are now being accepted for each of the four goals, plus any other directed needs identified by a donor and the Friends group. The four area of needs, voted on and approved at the Friends annual on-site meeting in Austin Oct 26 include: — increasing the Texan staffer scholarship endowment set up by the Friends, allowing larger and additional annual grants; the Friends gave one […]
Read more →A talented and eclectic group of journalists comprise the 2018 Daily Texan Hall of Fame honorees group, including the first female sportswriter to break the glass ceiling in the press box in Texas, a close aide to Lyndon Johnson, the author of “Old Yeller,” a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, a much-loved journalist turned professor, a prolific author of best-selling Western novels, an editorial adviser during a tumultuous period for The Texan and two pioneering food journalists, In addition, two Rising Star winners were selected, representing the best and brightest of today’s generation of journalists. The awards will be presented by […]
Read more →Eleven former staffers of The Daily Texan were honored and a new, endowed scholarship for a Texan staffer was announced at the recent annual awards dinner of Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. on the University of Texas-Austin campus. Take a look at the photo gallery from the event – http://www.friendsofthedailytexan.org/texan-hall-of-fame-awards-2017/ – and read below about those honored. During the awards dinner, the Friends announced a $25,000 grant to Moody College of Communication to establish an annual $1,500 scholarship for a deserving student journalist who works on The Texan. The Friends group – a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization, also announced start of a fund-raising […]
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