To ensure long-term funding of scholarships for staff members of The Daily Texan, the Friends of The Daily Texan is seeking your help to raise $300,000 to further build its endowment fund, guaranteeing continuation and growth of a scholarship program that now reaches 11 Texan staffers a year. “Today the Friends group seeks your help on our most challenging project since founded in 2013: to raise $300,000 to fully endow the group’s Daily Texan student scholarships for the future,” the Friends Endowment Committee said. “We ask the thousands of Daily Texan ”graduates” to join with us and support these grants […]
Read more →A $25,000 grant from an Austin journalist and her mother, a 104-year-old former journalist, has provided a significant boost to fully endow the S. Griffin Singer Scholarship, created recently by Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. The donation is from former Daily Texan staffer and Austin journalist Jo Clifton and her mother, Loretta Diggs Pendergraft. Jo is a respected Texas journalist and lawyer, currently serving as Political Editor of the Austin Monitor and is a former member of The Daily Texan staff with a Bachelor of Journalism degree. She has worked at the El Paso Times and the Austin American-Statesman and earned […]
Read more →S. Griffin Singer, respected Texas journalist and beloved former UT journalism professor, has been honored with an annual scholarship to be awarded in his name to a staff member of The Daily Texan. The $2,000 annual grant will come from Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc., a non-profit established in 2013 to provide support for The Daily Texan and its staff. The addition of this scholarship brings the total awarded to 11 Texan staffers to $15,000 from the Friends group and its partner donors. The grant program has grown from 1 recipient in 2018 to 11 in 2022. “The naming […]
Read more →From Moody College of Communication David Ryfe is the Director of and Professor in the School of Journalism and Media at The University of Texas at Austin. During his career, he has published widely in the areas of presidential communication, political communication, public deliberation, and the history and sociology of news. These days his work mostly concerns the ongoing disruption of American journalism. His book, Can Journalism Survive? (Polity, 2012) presents the most sustained ethnographic study of American newsrooms in a generation. His answer to the question raised in the book’s title is that journalism is and will survive but will adapt […]
Read more →Daily Texan veteran Gaylon Finklea Hecker and co-author Marianne Odom have been honored with the Yellow Rose of Texas Award for their contribution to the pereservation of Texas history. The award was presented at the Capitol by state Reps. Donna Howard and Steve Allison. Finklea Hecker and Odom are co-authors of Growing Up in the Lone Star State: Notable Texans Remember Their Childhoods, a series of interviews with 47 notable Texans between 1981 and 2018. Their efforts were awarded in the category of significant contribution to the preservation of Texas history. Published by the Briscoe Center for American History at […]
Read more →Congratulations Dean Jay Bernhardt on reappointment as Dean of Moody College of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. Announcement below from Moody and Dean Bernhardt and a congratulations from Friends of The Daily Texan. From Moody College of Communication: Dean Jay Bernhardt has been reappointed for a second six-year term as dean of Moody College of Communication. Over the next six years, he will lead #TEXASMoody to become the most impactful communication college in the world. “My hope for Moody in the coming years is that we retain the things that make us excellent and impactful, most importantly […]
Read more →Three senior editors have been named to lead The Daily Texan, student newspaper at the University of Texas at Austin, in the coming year. They are: Editor-in-Chief : Megan Tran Megan Tran is The Daily Texan editor-in-Chief for the next year. Megan first began at the Texan as an opinion columnist during her freshman year and became an opinion associate editor during Summer 2021. During this time, she wrote columns and contributed to editorials on a variety of issues and advocated for on-campus changes to better support students from marginalized communities. This past spring, she served as Assistant Director of […]
Read more →Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, a a Daily Texan staffer and Managing Editor in 2000, is part of The New York Times team that won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. The Times’ project was described by the judges: “For an ambitious project that quantified a disturbing pattern of fatal traffic stops by police, illustrating how hundreds of deaths could have been avoided and how officers typically avoided punishment.” Overall, The New York Times won three Pulitzer Prizes this year and was named as a finalist five more times when awards were announced on May 9. The New York Times shared comments from […]
Read more →Samantha Ketterer, Staff writer The Houston Chronicle The Houston Chronicle Editorial Board on May 9 won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing for a series on voter suppression in Texas. The top honor was awarded to writers Lisa Falkenberg, Michael Lindenberger, Joe Holley and Luis Carrasco. Mostly published in a series called, “The Big Lie,” their winning work examined and debunked GOP-driven falsehoods about voter fraud that have persisted for decades. Falkenberg is a journalism graduate of the University of Texas and a former staffer at The Daily Texan. “Our editorial team is committed to journalism excellence each and every […]
Read more →Editor’s Note: Richard Cole is a respected and internationally known educator and journalist who traces his background to The Daily Texan at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served two terms as Managing Editor. For 26 years he served as dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Cole is a new member of The Daily Texan Hall of Fame. As part of that recognition, a colleague and longtime friend from his days at UT asked him to record some of his memories of student journalism at The […]
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