As the year closes, please take a moment and ask: what does The Daily Texan mean to you? Perhaps: It’s where you wrote that terrific story that you still think about on occasion. It’s where you learned to work together as a team. It was your personal launching pad into journalism. It gave you the communication skills and other knowledge to purse another type career. It taught you to ask questions with expertise and authority, and never shirk from those in power. It’s where you met your spouse, or a new college roommate. It’s where you learned about the sanctity […]
Read more →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 →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 →Two annual scholarships of $1000 each will be awarded to University of Texas at Austin students who are on the staff of The Daily Texan newspaper. The scholarships are being made possible by award-winning photojournalists John McConnico of Texas and Jean-Marc Bouju of France, both former Daily Texan staffers. The first recipients will be announced on October 4, 2019 at The Friends of The Daily Texan annual Hall of Fame dinner. Without The Daily Texan student-run newspaper, McConnico and Bouju may never have met and shared overlapping, award-winning careers in photojournalism. The Daily Texan nurtured them, just has it has thousands of students […]
Read more →Editor’s note: Below is a note that University of Texas and Texas journalism legend Griff Singer shared: a Washington Post story about the paper employing a number of deaf printers in the composing rooms. As the story explains, schools for the deaf frequently guided deaf students to the printing industry as an excellent place of employment. The story is fascinating, but also Griff’s info about deaf printers working at The Daily Texan. Here’s Griff’s note, and below it is The Washington Post story: The Washington Post has an interesting piece about how deaf printers, trained at a nearby school and college especially […]
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 →Friends and supporters of The Daily Texan, student newspaper at the University of Texas-Austin, will gather Oct. 4 for the annual Hall of Fame dinner, sponsored by Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. In addition to honoring new inductees into The Daily Texan Hall of Fame, scholarship grants will be awarded to Daily Texan staffers. The FOTDT in 2018 established an endowment for annual scholarships, and presented awards to three students last year. A total of at least 4 scholarships will be announced at the 2019 dinner. The dinner will be held in the Shirley Bird Perry Ballroom of The Texas […]
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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