Ayesha Rascoe, White House correspondent for National Public Radio, will be the honoree for the 2019 Mary Alice Davis Distinguished Lecture in Journalism at UT-Austin. The program, which will feature questions from a panel of students and educators, will take place on Monday, Oct. 28, at the Belo Center for New Media Auditorium, with the time tentatively scheduled for 5:30 p.m. More details will come later. The lecture program honors Mary Alice Davis, who retired as an Austin American-Statesman columnist and editorial writer in 2002. After her death from ovarian cancer in 2004, her husband, Jim Davis, and daughter, Rachel […]
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 Friends of The Daily Texan elected eight new members to its board of directors in December to replace outgoing members whose terms had ended. The new board members are Sebastian Herrera, Phil Huber, Jim Davis, Jennie Kennedy, Shabab Siddiqui, Dave McNeely, Wanda “Fluffy” Cash and Steve Wisch. Huber will also be serving as treasurer for the board. The Friends of The Daily Texan is grateful to these outgoing board members and thanks them for their service: Dave Player, Alicia Dietrich, Lilly Rockwell, Cliff Avery, Tom Kleinworth, J.J. Hermes and Griff Singer. Learn more about incoming board members below: Sebastian […]
Read more →Stanley Farrar, a long-time photographer and newsroom digital pioneer, has joined the board of directors of Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. After graduation with a philosophy degree from UT Austin, Stanley worked as photographer and photo director for Texas Student Publications. He then went to the Associated Press Washington, D.C. bureau as a picture editor and came back to Austin as director of photography and graphics at the Austin American- Statesman. After seven years at the Statesman, he began a 25-year stint with The Seattle Times. He began as Assistant Managing Editor for photography, design and graphics and took on representing […]
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