To read Mekelburg’s coverage of West’s rebuilding efforts, click here. To read Smothers’ story about West High School’s annual prom, held despite the fact that a new school has not been constructed, click here.
WACO — The Daily Texan has won “Newspaper of the Year” in the college and university daily category at the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors meeting.
TAPME awards recognize “outstanding journalism as practiced by the state’s daily newspapers.”
The Texan also received regional recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists, which gave top honors to the newspaper’s coverage of the one-year anniversary of the West, Texas, fertilizer plant explosion.