A picture and stories of Walter Cronkite attending a Texan party in the 1970s. A silent auction packed with journalistic treasures. A plethora of meetings with Texan staffers, UT journalism students and recent graduates. These are a few of the highlights of the inaugural 2013 Alumni Weekend and Texan Hall of Fame celebration. The Friends of The Daily Texan organization incorporated in June with a mission of promoting the long-term sustainability of the student newspaper. Since incorporation, a handful of dedicated volunteers have worked hard to put together this weekend. The idea was to simultaneously honor Texan alumni, hold a […]
Read more →Two of the state’s premier media organizations and one of Texas’ best known and most successful attorneys are sponsors of the Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. Hall of Fame dinner Friday night, Nov. 8. The list of sponsors includes: A.H. Belo Corporation and The Dallas Morning News, the Austin American-Statesman and Hartley Hampton, P.C., a respected Houston law firm owned by UT and Daily Texan-ex Hartley Hampton. “We are greatly appreciative of the support from these organizations to the Friends of The Daily Texan, in our group’s effort to assist The Texan as it works to build a […]
Read more →As part of a weekend celebrating The Daily Texan — past, present and future — the Friends of The Daily Texan will host a day of mentorship and networking in The Daily Texan’s basement offices on Friday, Nov. 8. Current Texan staffers and other interested UT students are welcome to sign up for one-on-one meetings with 17 distinguished alumni. Alumni mentors hail from five decades of Daily Texans, and have gone on to industry-leading positions in print, online and broadcast journalism, photography, cartooning, public affairs, public relations and publishing. They include: • Ana Cantu, former opinion editor and social media […]
Read more →The schedule is now finalized for the Friends of The Daily Texan inaugural Alumni Weekend, which features a private tour of the Watergate papers at the Harry Ransom Center, an afternoon of mentorship at The Daily Texan basement, lunch at Scholz’s, a Segway tour of campus and a tour of the new Belo Center for New Media at the College of Communications. To register for any or all of these events, go to the below address and click on the link: http://www.texanfriends.org/texan-hall-of-fame/12-named-to-texan-hall-of-fame-2/ And for more information on Friends of The Texan, Inc. and alumni weekend, go to http://www.texanfriends.org/ The main […]
Read more →The Friends of The Daily Texan will be hosting an Alumni Weekend and Texan Hall of Fame awards dinner on Nov. 8 – 9, 2013. The awards dinner will be on Friday evening. The schedule is not set in stone yet, but there will be a mentoring day in the Texan basement on Friday afternoon, a cocktail reception and Texan Hall of Fame awards dinner on Friday evening, and a day of fun, leisurely activities on Saturday (such as Segway tours of campus). We are working on a registration and payment system for the event. But for those of you […]
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