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 →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 →Registration is now open for the annual Friends of The Daily Texan Hall of Fame dinner at The Texas Union building on the UT campus. Twice postponed due to the pandemic, the event on April 8 in the Shirley Bird Perry ballroom of The Union building will begin with a social hour at 6 p.m., and continue at 7 p.m. with the dinner. Register here: https://friendsdailytexan.wildapricot.org/event-4702996 “There’s a lot of pent-up interest in the dinner, since we had to cancel the 2020 and 2021 dinners,” said a statement from the board of Friends of The Daily Texan. “It will be […]
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 →After Covid-forced postponements the past two years, the Friends of The Daily Texan group is moving forward with plans for a highly-anticipated annual dinner on Friday, April 8 this year at The Texas Union building. Online registration for the event will begin in early February, with sign up info going out via social media and other contact methods. The event will begin at 6 p.m. on April 8 with a social hour in the Shirley Bird Perry Ballroom of The Texas Union building, followed by dinner and recognition of honorees. As with previous dinners, the event will honor Texan staffers, and also recognize Hall of […]
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 […]
Read more →From the Associated Press For nearly five decades, Marty Crutsinger has played a vital role at the Associated Press, chronicling a gallery of transformative events. A reporter known for his steady nerves, breadth of knowledge and boundless energy, Marty chased stories that brought him to extraordinary moments in history. From plane crashes, hurricanes and cruise-ship fires in Miami to Mikhail Gorbachev’s first appearance at a Group of Seven global meeting in London, fromcoverage of city hall to the statehouse to U.S. Department ofTreasury and the Federal Reserve, Marty’s career has hop-scotched across a half-century of assignments that required smarts, versatility […]
Read more →A new date – Friday, April 8, 2022 – has been set for the next annual Friends of The Daily Texan dinner. Dinners planned for fall of 2020 and 2021 were cancelled due to COVID-19 health concerns. The annual Friends dinner has been held in recent years in the Shirley Bird Perry Ballroom in The Texas Union on the UT campus, and that venue has been reserved for April 8 next year. As last year, the Friends group will fund scholarships for student staffers and award those virtually this fall. Despite cancellation of the two dinners, the Friends group has […]
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