I remember walking around the HSM building for a good while before I finally found the sign on the door that led me to the dark dingy basement known as the Daily Texan office. The photo editor at the time...
Writing for The Daily Texan can be a bit of an out-of-body experience.
I can tell you where I was when I heard the latest breaking news or how I participated in our coverage. But ask me to recount my...
I stumbled into The Daily Texan office last semester and decided to write a tryout story on a whim. I was met with a whirlwind of activity, which I soon learned is just a typical night in the office. I...
“Matthew,” managing editor Brett Donohoe shouted at me on June 27.
News editor Andy Boyd also shouted the same thing from Brett’s office. The only thing my body knew to do was hop...
Of all the pieces I’ve written for The Daily Texan, this is by far the hardest.
When you cover a particular beat, you tend to write stories on the same issues over and over again. You find yourself...
Josh Willis has worked as a general reporter, a senior reporter on the System and Administration beat, and a news desk editor. He will miss causing trouble around the office.
I wanted to join the Texan as soon as I committed to UT. The decision: Which section? I felt unqualified to offer opinions when I barely knew my way around campus. News reporting was tempting, but I heard...
The Texan is all I’ve ever known.
Sure, I worked at that restaurant and took a few classes, but those were just temporary phases in my college career at the Texan — like that time I pierced...
I have no idea what I'm doing.
I used to think I did. I had a plan: I was going to be a journalist, starting as a news reporter for The Daily Texan. Suffice it to say, this is the first and only...
Few people know how much the Texan saved me.
Before I became a daily fixture by the basement door, I didn’t really belong anywhere. I was a journalism sophomore who had never written a journalistic...
Bryce Seifert, former Daily Texan video editor, was found completely exhausted on the floor of the Daily Texan office Friday. He was 20 years old.
Seifert served as a videographer at the paper for two...
I used to allow fear to control me. I imagined myself growing into a dogged reporter, but in reality, I was terrified.
In August 2013, I sheepishly went to a Daily Texan info session with all intents...
