When you support scholarships for Daily Texan staff members by donating to the Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. endowment, who receives the money and where are they now, after graduation? Read below – in their own words – about 4 former Texan staffers who are examples of the importance of those grants that you help support. One student former student calls it “a lifesaver” for him and his family; another says, “I couldn’t be more grateful for the investment in my career and studies.” Since the Friends group’s first grant of $1,500 to one student in 2018, $41,750 has […]
Read more →Veteran Austin American-Statesman columnist and sports editor Kirk Bohls and his wife Vicki have endowed a permanent grant to fund an annual scholarship for a Daily Texan sports journalist. Kirk and Vicki’s $50,000 donation will fully endow a new annual scholarship, and comes as the Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. work this year to raise funds to fund for long-term availability all 13 grants that will be awarded next year. The $2,500 award will be presented each year at the Friends of The Daily Texan Hall of Fame dinner and will recognize the achievements of a sports-focused staff member […]
Read more →When you donate to support scholarship grants for Daily Texan staff members, via Friends of The Daily Texan, what happens after you write a check or make an online donation? First, donations of any size are appreciated and help us reach our $300,000 goal in 2023. Please be aware that the Friends of The Daily Texan is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization that has been recognized by the IRS as being tax-exempt by virtue of its charitable programs. Your donation may be tax deductible. As donations are received they are deposited to an endowment fund with the University of Texas […]
Read more →Gerald A. Johnson, director of Texas Student Media for the past 9 years, has accepted a new position at UT-Austin, but will still retain involvement in Texas Student Media, while adding additional duties for Moody College of Communication. Johnson has assumed the role of Executive Director for Program and Center Innovation and Partnership for the Moody College of Communication. TSM will continue to be one of his responsibilities and he is in the process of looking for a successor in his TSM role. Under Johnson’s leadership, The Daily Texan and TSM are expected to record its 9th consecutive annual profit […]
Read more →Rachel Davis Mersey has been appointed Interim Dean of the Moody College of Communication. She has served as Associate Dean for Research at Moody College and held the Jesse H. Jones Centennial Professorship in the School of Journalism and Media since 2020. In addition to her teaching, research, and leadership roles at UT, Dr. Mersey has spent the last two years collaborating with Meta to build the company’s platform for research partnerships. Dr. Mersey replaces Dr Jay Bernhardt who will serve as the next President of Emerson College. With experience as a professional journalist at the Arizona Republic and azcentral.com […]
Read more →By Jonathan Malesic Mr. Malesic teaches writing at the University of Texas at Dallas. April 7, 2023 In the debate over free speech and social justice, commentators on the right and the “heterodox” left often claim that college students are all either stridently liberal or cowed into silence by those who are. As someone who has spent two decades teaching at colleges large and small, public and private, I don’t recognize this description — and it’s not because I think that it’s conservative students who are dominating the discourse. In my experience, college students are all too reluctant to express strong […]
Read more →Two annual awards for Daily Texan staff members have been created in honor of journalism professors at the University of Texas at Austin. The Faculty Recognition Award is a cash award designed to honor the extraordinary efforts of outstanding faculty, and the awards go to Texan staffers who have made significant contributions working for The Daily Texan in spite of financial hardship. This is made possible by award-winning photojournalists John McConnico of Texas and Jean-Marc Bouju of France, both former Daily Texan staffers and both Pulitzer Prize winners and members of The Daily Texan Hall of Fame, sponsored by Friends […]
Read more →The 10th anniversary gathering of the Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. on March 31 will have a slightly different look this year, with expanded reception time for friends and colleagues to gather. Daily Texan Hall of Fame and Rising Star recipients will be honored at the event and scholarships for Daily Texan staff members will be announced. Register here: https://friendsdailytexan.wildapricot.org/event-5144331 For attendees, there will be expanded reception and visiting time to catch up with friends and colleagues, and also a greatly expanded variety of food options. And for the presentation of Hall of Fame and Rising Star honorees, there will […]
Read more →Supporters of student journalism at the University of Texas and fans and friends of The Daily Texan, please mark March 31 on your calendar. That’s the date of the annual Friends of The Daily Texan gathering on the Austin campus, and this year it will be a bit different. The gathering will be both an outdoor (weather permitting) and indooor reception in the Walter Cronkite Plaza located in the Moody College of Communication complex. “This event marks the 10th anniversary of Friends of The Daily Texan,” board members said in a statement,. “We wanted to make it more of a celebration […]
Read more →Jan. 12, 2023 / The Berkeley Beacon Dr. Jay M. Bernhardt, current dean of The University of Texas at Austin’s Moody College of Communication, will become Emerson College’s 13th president in June, after two years of an interim leader presiding, college officials announced. Bernhardt, who was chosen by members of the Presidential Search Committee, will succeed interim President William Gilligan after the spring 2023 semester comes to a close, according to a statement from committee chair Eric Alexander. The announcement comes over 19 months after former President M. Lee Pelton left to lead the Boston Foundation in June 2021. “Throughout the […]
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