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....
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
In 1981, Louis Black started a job in Austin that he thought would last only a year. He helped launch The Austin Chronicle, which became one of the most successful alternative weeklies in the country....
Texas Monthly Food Editor Patricia Sharpe has worked at the magazine since 1974, when she started out editing the cultural and restaurant listings. She eventually focused exclusively on food, and her writing...
Friends of The Daily Texan. will induct 11 new Daily Texan Hall of Fame members and host University of Texas System Chancellor William McRaven as keynote speaker at its fifth annual gathering Nov. 3 at...
The Daily Texan's newest managing editor is a former church pianist from Dublin — the town in Texas, not Ireland — who was so torn between her interests in science and journalism that she decided...
Pre-Watergate-era reporter devotes life’s work to documenting ordinary detail with humanity and compassion
Gaylon Finklea Hecker served as a general assignments reporter and editor during her University...
The editorship of The Daily Texan has been a springboard to journalistic success for many. After all, the paper has won more national, regional and state awards than any other college newspaper in America...
John Schwartz (BA ’79, JD ’84) is a climate change writer for the New York Times, where he has worked since 2000 covering science, technology, space travel, legal affairs and more. Before that, he...
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