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Journalism

All 119 years of Daily Texan history now in online archive

The vendor that scans and hosts The Daily Texan is now fully up to date in building the online archives, which now serves as a repository of every Texan issue back to its founding in 1900. “Our digital archives reflect day one of the Texan, through August of 2019, said Gerald A. Johnson, Director or Texas Student Media. “Our campus community is especially thrilled with the archive.  Whether you work in administration, development or academics –  a trip into the archives can help you with your research, special anniversaries, prepare for a visit from a Texas-Ex and more.” The digital archives went online several months […]

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NPR reporter honoree for Mary Alice Davis Distinguished Lecture Series

  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 […]

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Former Texan editor and long-time Jewish Outlook editor donates collection to Briscoe Center

For almost a decade, Gaylon Finklea Hecker (BJ ’72) edited Austin’s monthly tabloid, The Jewish Outlook, chronicling contemporary local news from the Jewish community that had recently begun exploding due in part to the influx of high-tech jobs in Central Texas. Austin’s Jewish history from 1989 to late 1998 exists no other place, at least in this month-to-month detail. And now it has found a new home where researchers will be able to use this wealth of information along with that of the Texas Jewish Historical Society. Finklea Hecker has donated a hard copy of every issue of The Jewish […]

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McConnico-Bouju Scholarships celebrate a friendship made at The Daily Texan

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 […]

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Mutually beneficial relationship – deaf printers and the printing industry, including The Daily Texan

Editor’s note:  Below is a note that University of Texas and Texas journalism legend Griff Singer shared: a Washington Post story about the paper employing a number of deaf printers in the composing rooms.  As the story explains, schools for the deaf frequently guided deaf students to the printing industry as an excellent place of employment. The story is fascinating, but also Griff’s info about deaf printers working at The Daily Texan. Here’s Griff’s note, and below it is The Washington Post story:  The Washington Post has an interesting piece about how deaf printers, trained at a nearby school and college especially […]

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A Russian journalist visited Corpus Christi and D.C. and here’s what he learned

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 […]

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