By Erin Geisler KUT Debbie Hiott, who most recently served as editor of the Austin American-Statesman for seven years, has been selected to lead KUT 90.5, Austin’s NPR station, and KUTX 98.9, The Austin Music Experience, as their next general manager and the executive director of media operations for the Moody College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin. As editor, Hiott led the Austin American-Statesman to three Texas Newspaper of the Year awards, while also enhancing its award-winning digital products. Hiott served the American-Statesman in numerous capacities during a decorated 26-year career. She began as a reporter […]
Read more →University of Texas Journalism school legend Griff Singer and his wife Evelyn have been honored with dedication of the journalism foyer in the Belo Center for New Media in recognition of their achievements. Singer was a long-time professor in the journalism school, and also had a distinguished career at the Dallas Morning News and other papers. His wife Evelyn was a long distance runner and former teacher; she died in 2018 after a 14-year battle with cancer. The dedication of the foyer was made recently, and Singer remarked to those attending that he was “really lucky” to have known his UT family for […]
Read more →Editor’s note: How to access The Texan archives is included at the bottom of this story, plus a link to donate to the Friends of The Daily Texan group, which has pledged to pay costs needed to make the Texan history available to all. Students, faculty and staff have free access; the public can subscribe. The Friends group guaranteed the money so this project could proceed; now we will start soliciting donations for that effort. Thanks in advance for your support. By Natalie England / Marketing Communications Moody College of Communication For those daring enough to brave the dim staircase, […]
Read more →William C. Powers Jr., 28th president of the The University of Texas at Austin, and an esteemed teacher, nationally recognized legal scholar and staunch believer in the value of the public research university who defended UT against challenges to its mission, died Sunday. Powers passed away in Austin from complications from a fall several months earlier and from oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy, a rare adult-onset muscle disorder. In addition to his other achievements, Powers also came to the financial aid of The Daily Texan, student newspaper at UT, during a particularly critical moment in its history. “Powers’ aid to The Texan […]
Read more →An Austin couple who met 59 years ago as staffers on The Daily Texan, student newspaper at The University of Texas at Austin, has established an annual cash award for present day staffers. With their gift to The University, the couple established the Jerry and Becky Conn Daily Texan Scholarship Fund to be awarded annually in perpetuity. The generous gift will generate a $1,500 cash award for a deserving Texan staffer. The award will be announced each fall at the Friends of the Texan annual event. The Friends of the Texan is a non-profit group of former staffers that supports […]
Read more →The board of directors of Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. has established a set of fund-raising goals for 2019 to benefit The Daily Texan, and is encouraging donations as 2018 comes to a close. Donations are now being accepted for each of the four goals, plus any other directed needs identified by a donor and the Friends group. The four area of needs, voted on and approved at the Friends annual on-site meeting in Austin Oct 26 include: — increasing the Texan staffer scholarship endowment set up by the Friends, allowing larger and additional annual grants; the Friends gave one […]
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The Daily Texan staff has added more than 100 students since the fall of 2015, when Texas Student Media began conducting censuses of the staff. The Daily Texan had 193 staff members in the fall of 2015, which grew to 243 staff members in the fall of 2016 and 301 staff members this past fall. Texas Student Media Director Gerald Johnson attributes the growth to a number of reasons, but he points to an increased focus on fostering a welcoming environment and diversifying content and participant backgrounds. Johnson also sees the increase as a likely response to recent attacks on […]
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Friends of The Daily Texan Inc. has provided $25,000 in funds to start a scholarship fund for Daily Texan staffers and is now beginning a campaign to raise additional funds to further grow the endowment. During its annual awards dinner Nov. 3, the Friends group announced a $25,000 grant to Moody College of Communication to establish an annual $1,500 scholarship for a deserving student journalist who works on The Texan. The first scholarship grant will be awarded in spring 2018 to a deserving staffer, chosen by a selection committee that will include representatives from Moody College of Communication, The Daily Texan, Texas […]
Read more →Eleven former staffers of The Daily Texan were honored and a new, endowed scholarship for a Texan staffer was announced at the recent annual awards dinner of Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. on the University of Texas-Austin campus. Take a look at the photo gallery from the event – http://www.friendsofthedailytexan.org/texan-hall-of-fame-awards-2017/ – and read below about those honored. During the awards dinner, the Friends announced a $25,000 grant to Moody College of Communication to establish an annual $1,500 scholarship for a deserving student journalist who works on The Texan. The Friends group – a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization, also announced start of a fund-raising […]
Read more →Editor’s note – Below you’ll find an update from Media Advisor Peter Chen, who works daily with the journalists at The Daily Texan. His note describes the real-world experiences Texan journalists are receiving, and how they rise to the occasion. By Peter Chen Media Advisor, Texas Student Media I’d like to update Friends of The Daily Texan on what your successors recently did that I feel y’all would be proud of. How they worked tirelessly to nail down a story of a Student Government (SG) elections code violation, the pushback they encountered that is so similar to what journalists are […]
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