Jaree Campbell, a Daily Texan staffer for the past two years, has been selected as the first recipient of a $1,500 scholarship grant from the Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. Jaree began as a copy editor, then became associate copy desk chief, and then associate editor for the opinion department. “My role as a copy editor served as my initial foray into journalism where I learned the basics of copy editing and the workflow of a newsroom,” she said in her application. “As associate editor I had the opportunity to influence the editorial vision of the department…Ultimately I have […]
Read more →Liza Anderson has been elected Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Texan for the 2018-2019 school year. In addition, Catherine Marfin has been elected Managing Editor for the Summer term, and Ellie Breed for the Fall term. Editors-in-Chief and Managing Editors serve during their terms as voting members of the Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. Board of Directors. Liza Anderson, 2018-2019 Editor-in-Chief, is a Plan II and history junior from Houston. She has worked at The Daily Texan since her first semester at UT, and in that time, she has held six positions across the design and opinion departments. Anderson hopes […]
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New York Times reporter Amy Chozick got her start at The Daily Texan, where she worked from 1997 to 2001. She’s become best known as the Times’ lead reporter on the Hillary Clinton campaign in 2016. However, she also spent eight years at The Wall Street Journal, where she covered both Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s 2008 campaigns. Last month, her book, “Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling,” went on sale, and not surprisingly, it has generated widespread attention. Friends of The Daily Texan caught up with her to find out what it was like […]
Read more →The Friends of The Daily Texan elected eight new members to its board of directors in December to replace outgoing members whose terms had ended. The new board members are Sebastian Herrera, Phil Huber, Jim Davis, Jennie Kennedy, Shabab Siddiqui, Dave McNeely, Wanda “Fluffy” Cash and Steve Wisch. Huber will also be serving as treasurer for the board. The Friends of The Daily Texan is grateful to these outgoing board members and thanks them for their service: Dave Player, Alicia Dietrich, Lilly Rockwell, Cliff Avery, Tom Kleinworth, J.J. Hermes and Griff Singer. Learn more about incoming board members below: Sebastian […]
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Bryan Mealer wandered into The Daily Texan basement not long after arriving at The University of Texas at Austin in 1996. He had dabbled in writing here and there, covering concerts and reviewing albums for his high school paper. “I wrote one [Texan] story, and my editor was like, ‘Oh, you’re a senior reporter,’” he said. “I think they were desperately short-handed.” He was awarded the plum beat of covering the University of Texas administration when it was instituting affirmative action policies. “A lot of affirmative action stories were coming down the pike at that time,” he said. “I remember […]
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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 →Bill Moyers, a former Daily Texan staffer who forged a high-profile career in politics and media, is “signing off” after a distinguished career. Moyers was a first-year inductee, in 2013, to the Daily Texan Hall of Fame, by Friends of The Daily Texan Inc. Moyers wrote for The Daily Texan in the 1950s. He was LBJ’s White House press secretary and has had a storied career as commentator and host for PBS, including Bill Moyers Journal and Moyers & Co. You can read his farewell note here- http://billmoyers.com/story/farewell/ – or pasted below. To Our Readers: When I turned 80 three years ago, […]
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 →Liz Smith, well-known gossip columnist and former Daily Texan staffer, died at age 94 at her home in Manhattan on Sunday, Nov. 12. She was also a 2015 inductee in The Daily Texan Hall of Fame, sponsored by the Friends of The Daily Texan, Inc. Below is her obituary from The New York Times: The New York Times Liz Smith, the longtime queen of New York’s tabloid gossip columns, who for more than three decades chronicled little triumphs and trespasses in the soap-opera lives of the rich, the famous and the merely beautiful, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. […]
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