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 →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 →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 […]
Read more →From UT News AUSTIN, Texas — Experiential learning is expanding at The University of the Texas at Austin after Texas Student Media launched two new partnerships in which the organization will serve in an agency capacity. Texas Student Media will now provide support with a focus on developing new streams of advertising and underwriting to Texas A&M Student Media and The Drag, an audio production house in the Moody College of Communication at UT Austin. “We are excited about these new relationships and the impact they will have for our student experience, with new funding sources invested back into […]
Read more →The annual Friends of The Daily Texan dinner planned for Oct. 1 is being rescheduled due to the current worsening health situation in Austin. A new date will be announced as soon as possible; next spring seems likely at this stage. As the fall semester opens, the University of Texas is taking steps to lower the density of indoor gatherings on campus, and UT President Jay Hartzell has requested all large events to be held outdoors in the near future. And, if they must be held indoors, to encourage distancing and face masks, which is not easy to do when […]
Read more →Please mark Friday, Oct. 1 for the Friends of The Daily Texan annual Hall of Fame dinner on the University of Texas campus. The scheduled dinner/reunion will include honoring the 2021 Daily Texan Hall of Fame winners, and announcement of scholarships grants for eight Daily Texan staff members. The dinner is planned for the Shirley Bird Perry Ballroom, in The Texas Union Building. Tentative start time is 6 p.m. All health protocols in place by The Union and the University of Texas will be followed, and additional info will be provided as the event draws closer. At this time The […]
Read more →The Friends of The Daily Texan Board of Directors has voted to fund an additional scholarship for a Texan staffer, bringing the total to 5 annual grants provided by the Friends plus three generous grants from former Texan staffers. Those three additional grants include one from Becky and Jerry Conn, and two from John McConnico and Jean-Marc Bouju. The additional $1,000 annual Friends scholarship will go to a staff member who has shown an interest in sports coverage. In addition, two $500 runner-up awards to the Friends of The Daily Texan Award have been increased from $500 each to $1,000 […]
Read more →A portion of money raised during a recent fund-raising campaign by Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. will be used to support the online effort 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, web tools and technical support for the student newspaper’s recently relaunched website, thedailytexan.com. In addition, a portion of the grant would also allow employment of an intern to provide assistance and technical help in support of further growth and development of the website. The board […]
Read more →The ongoing Friends of The Daily Texan fund-drive has reached $31,460, all to be used for Texan scholarships, project needs and other items to support the student newspaper at The University of Texas at Austin. The recent fund drive focused on raising donations to replace revenue lost by cancellation of the Friends’ group 2020 annual dinner due to the pandemic. You may view the list of recent donors here: https://friendsofthedailytexan.com/donors-to-the-texan/ The fund drive began last September and brought in $8,700 between Sept. 1 and Dec. 31, 2020 from 40 donors. Continuation of the fund drive from Jan. 1 resulted in […]
Read more →Now, more than ever, The Daily Texan needs your help. When Covid-19 hit hard a year ago, The Daily Texan was prospering, excelling editorially, fully staffed. And Texas Student Media was headed for a strong year built around an aggressive budget. A year later, The Texan perseveres, making sure the UT campus gets the coverage it deserves and needs. The adjustment has not been easy. To weather the pandemic, student journalist salaries have been cut at The Texan, and staff reductions have taken place at Texas Student Media. The Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc., an 8-year-old non-profit founded to […]
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