University of Texas President Jay Hartzell will speak at the April 8 Friends of The Daily Texan Hall of Fame dinner on the Austin campus. Hartzell will join Moody College of Communication Dean Jay Bernhardt, who also will speak to the group. 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 p.m., and continue at 7 p.m. with the dinner. In addition to remarks by Hartzell and Bernhardt, the dinner will recognize Daily Texan Hall of Fame honorees, including […]
Read more →Not able to attend the annual Friends of The Daily Texan Hall of Fame dinner on April 8? Please consider sponsoring a Texan staffer to attend. You may sponsor a student or register to attend here: https://friendsdailytexan.wildapricot.org/event-4702996 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 Pulitzer 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 […]
Read more →David T. López of Houston has been selected as one of five recipients of the 2022 Texas Bar Foundation’s Outstanding 50 Year Lawyer Award. The award recognizes attorneys whose practice has spanned 50 years or more and who adhere to the highest principles and traditions of the legal profession and service to the public. David T. López is an international and domestic arbitrator and mediator in Houston. Born and raised in Laredo, he received a journalism degree from The University of Texas and was a newspaper reporter before attending South Texas College of Law Houston while working full-time as a labor union representative. He graduated first […]
Read more →The epic migration of hundreds of thousands of Cuban exiles to the U.S. is the subject of a new oral history book by David Powell, who served as editor of The Daily Texan in 1972-1973. The book, Ninety Miles and a Lifetime Away: Memories of Early Cuban Exiles, tells the story of the 600,000 Cubans who came to the U.S. in two massive waves in the first fifteen years after Fidel Castro assumed power on the island in 1959. Most exiles arrived with only a few clothes and pocket money and without visas, but the government let them enter the country anyway. […]
Read more →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 →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 →By Griff Singer Chairperson, Friends of The Daily Texan Hall of Fame Selection Committee If there ever was a concern about the superb talent pool of onetime Daily Texan staffers evaporating, fear no more. Look at the inductees for the 2021 Friends of The Daily Texan Hall of Fame and the Griff Singer Friend of The Daily Texan Award. Any concerns will vanish. Once again, your FOTDT Board has endorsed the nominations of a stellar and diverse group of journalists and photographers — some young, some with gray or little hair. All have strong ties to The Texan. All have […]
Read more →John Pope, a UT graduate who has been a reporter in New Orleans for nearly a half-century, has provided a long-term continuing grant in honor of his Daily Texan colleague and friend Middy Randerson to underwrite a $1,000 annual scholarship for entertainment/arts and lifestyle coverage at The Daily Texan. Randerson died in February 2020. A scholarship was established in her name that year via donations to Friends of The Daily Texan Inc., but Pope’s contribution guarantees continuing funding. “Middy was a good friend and colleague who was steadfast in her devotion to her work and to her friends,” Pope said […]
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 […]
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