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 →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 →Editor’s Note – The Longhorn Alumni Band – 300 strong with 230 additional along for support – was one of the lead groups marking the 75th anniversary of D-Day Anniversary June 6. Former Daily Texan staffers Gaylon Finklea Hecker and Susan LaRonde were part of the alumni band at the events. Gaylon shares her thoughts in this article. Also, attending as part of the band support staff was Rachel Davis, daughter of Friends of The Daily Texan board member Jim Davis, and her friend Sara Hemenway. Included with the article are photos by Gaylon, her husband Marvin Hecker, Rachel Davis and Sara Hemenway. The […]
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 →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 →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 […]
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