Tickets are still available for the 7th annual Friends of The Daily Texan Hall of Fame dinner – and reunion of staff and supporters of The Daily Texan – to be held Friday, Oct. 4 on the University of Texas campus. Social hour begins at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. in the Shirley Bird Perry Ballroom of The Texas Union. You may register by going to this link: https://friendsdailytexan.wildapricot.org/event-3409008 All proceeds go to financially assist The Texan, funding such projects as buildout of the online archive for all Texan issues back to its founding in 1900, scholarships […]
Read more →What’s new at the 7th annual Friends of the Daily Texan Hall of Fame dinner Oct. 4 in Austin? The new: The latest from Dean Jay Bernhardt on the innovative work of Moody College of Communication this past year. Six deserving Texan staffers will receive scholarship grants at the dinner; that’s three new ones since last year. Two new scholarships will be unveiled – the Becky and Jerry Conn Scholarship and the John McConnico and Jean-Mark Bouju scholarships. They join the Friends of The Daily Texan Achievement Awards as scholarships now available to Texan staffers. An update from Gerald A. […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →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 […]
Read more →The Daily Texan has new editorial leadership, including a new Editor-in- Chief, a new Summer Managing Editor and a new Fall Managing Editor. Spencer Buckner is the 2019-2020 editor-in-chief of The Daily Texan. A Plan II and journalism junior, he has worked at the Texan since arriving at UT, holding positions in opinion and audio. He hopes to continue the editorial board’s tradition of investigative editorials while expanding community outreach and input. When not at the Texan, you can find him playing and listening to music. Alex Briseño, a junior studying journalism and radio, television and film, is the Summer […]
Read more →A talented and eclectic group of honorees comprise the 2019 Daily Texan Hall of Fame class, including a former staffer who made his career in medicine and broke the racial barrier at The Texan in the 1960s, an expert on climate change, space coverage, environmental and science journalism, a veteran sports editor recognized as an expert on the Olympics games, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer honored for her work on violent human rights abuses against women worldwide, one of the nation’s premier medical malpractice attorneys, a beloved Houston TV journalist and a veteran TV producer who has won 17 Emmys and other […]
Read more →Three Texan staffers have recently received scholarship grants from Friends of The Daily Texan, and the 2019 winners will be announced at the group’s annual dinner Oct. 4. Forrest Milburn, who currently serves as the spring 2019 managing editor of The Daily Texan, was recipient of the $1,750 Friends scholarship grant at the annual Friends dinner recently. During his four years at the Texan, Forrest has been a senior reporter, news editor, associate news editor, associate social media editor and associate managing editor, focusing on digital strategy and audience engagement. He is a senior studying journalism at UT Austin, while also […]
Read more →Lorraine Branham, former director of the school of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin from 2002 to 2008, died April 2. Below is her obituary from The New York Times. By Katharine Q. Seelye April 11, 2019 Kelsey Davis was on the verge of dropping out of the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University two years ago. Her grades were poor and she felt insecure, doubtful that she belonged at such a prestigious institution. In sorting out her situation, she met with the school’s dean, Lorraine Branham, a longtime journalist and, like her, a black woman. Ms. […]
Read more →By Raga Justin / Journalism Sophomore UT School of Journalism From bustling Guadalupe Street to grand Darrell K Royal Stadium (and everywhere in between), the University of Texas packs nearly 26,000 employees into around 431 acres. In fact, UT can often seem like its own city in the heart of Austin, with hundreds of offices and departments scattered across campus. To reach across that divide, employees at Texas Student Media and the Office of Internal Communications recently created Texas Connect, a magazine geared towards UT faculty and staff with the goal of uniting the university’s permanent population. “We are so big…it’s […]
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