The April 8 Friends of The Daily Texan Hall of Fame dinner will honor distinguished “graduates” of The Daily Texan, including a nationally-known medical reporter/podcaster, a decades-long columnist and expert on Texas politics, three Putlitzer Prize winning photographers, two Washington Post senior staffers – one Managing Editor of diversity and inclusion, and the second an expert on Wall Street and government programs to save small businesses and the eviction crisis. Twice postponed due to the pandemic, the event on April 8 in the Shirley Bird Perry ballroom of The Texas Union building will begin with a social hour at 6 […]
Read more →For the second year in a row, the Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. will fund a key part of the digital infrastructure of the student newspaper at the University of Texas. The board of directors of the Friends group recently voted to fully fund for a 12-month period the cost of infrastructure and web tools for the student newspaper’s website, thedailytexan.com. The board of directors approval of the $3,500 grant follows a similar grant of $5,000 in 2021. “We believe it is important to show our support for The Texan and its digital efforts by providing funding to support […]
Read more →Registration is now open for the annual Friends of The Daily Texan Hall of Fame dinner at The Texas Union building on the UT campus. Twice postponed due to the pandemic, the event on April 8 in the Shirley Bird Perry ballroom of The Union building will begin with a social hour at 6 p.m., and continue at 7 p.m. with the dinner. Register here: https://friendsdailytexan.wildapricot.org/event-4702996 “There’s a lot of pent-up interest in the dinner, since we had to cancel the 2020 and 2021 dinners,” said a statement from the board of Friends of The Daily Texan. “It will be […]
Read more →Feb. 14, 2022 The Board of Directors of Friends of The Daily Texan voted unanimously Sunday to support The Battalion as it resists the Texas A&M president’s plan to end print publication of the student newspaper. The A&M President announced Thursday that this week would be last printing of The Battalion she has since changed that to end of spring semester. It came as a surprise to editors of the paper, who were not consulted. “Student media face the same challenges today as media companies, large and small, across the nation. But ceasing print publication will only accelerate the paper’s […]
Read more →After Covid-forced postponements the past two years, the Friends of The Daily Texan group is moving forward with plans for a highly-anticipated annual dinner on Friday, April 8 this year at The Texas Union building. Online registration for the event will begin in early February, with sign up info going out via social media and other contact methods. The event will begin at 6 p.m. on April 8 with a social hour in the Shirley Bird Perry Ballroom of The Texas Union building, followed by dinner and recognition of honorees. As with previous dinners, the event will honor Texan staffers, and also recognize Hall of […]
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 […]
Read more →Please mark Friday, Oct. 1 for the Friends of The Daily Texan annual Hall of Fame dinner on the University of Texas campus. The scheduled dinner/reunion will include honoring the 2021 Daily Texan Hall of Fame winners, and announcement of scholarships grants for eight Daily Texan staff members. The dinner is planned for the Shirley Bird Perry Ballroom, in The Texas Union Building. Tentative start time is 6 p.m. All health protocols in place by The Union and the University of Texas will be followed, and additional info will be provided as the event draws closer. At this time The […]
Read more →The Friends of The Daily Texan Board of Directors has voted to fund an additional scholarship for a Texan staffer, bringing the total to 5 annual grants provided by the Friends plus three generous grants from former Texan staffers. Those three additional grants include one from Becky and Jerry Conn, and two from John McConnico and Jean-Marc Bouju. The additional $1,000 annual Friends scholarship will go to a staff member who has shown an interest in sports coverage. In addition, two $500 runner-up awards to the Friends of The Daily Texan Award have been increased from $500 each to $1,000 […]
Read more →A portion of money raised during a recent fund-raising campaign by Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. will be used to support the online effort of the student newspaper at the University of Texas. The board of directors of the Friends group recently voted to fully fund for a 12-month period the cost of infrastructure, web tools and technical support for the student newspaper’s recently relaunched website, thedailytexan.com. In addition, a portion of the grant would also allow employment of an intern to provide assistance and technical help in support of further growth and development of the website. The board […]
Read more →The ongoing Friends of The Daily Texan fund-drive has reached $31,460, all to be used for Texan scholarships, project needs and other items to support the student newspaper at The University of Texas at Austin. The recent fund drive focused on raising donations to replace revenue lost by cancellation of the Friends’ group 2020 annual dinner due to the pandemic. You may view the list of recent donors here: https://friendsofthedailytexan.com/donors-to-the-texan/ The fund drive began last September and brought in $8,700 between Sept. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020 from 40 donors. Continuation of the fund drive from Jan. 1 resulted in […]
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