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Richard A. Oppel (born Jan. 30, 1943 in Newark, N.J.) is an American newspaper, magazine and digital editor living in Austin, Texas.He was interim editor-in-chief (May 5, 2018 – Feb. 1, 2019) of Texas Monthly, [1] an Austin-based publication with a statewide readership of 2.4 million. [2]
The Daily Toreador, also known as The DT, is the student newspaper of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.The newspaper was first published in 1925 as The Toreador and later changed its name to The University Daily before arriving at the current name in 2005.
Mayes founded the University of Texas School of Journalism in 1914 and was its dean until 1926. [22] As dean, he founded The Texas Journalist, a student run newspaper. [23] In 1916, he was one of seven faculty members [24] targeted for firing by Texas governor James E. Ferguson, who found them objectionable.
McElroy's career in journalism began when she worked as a news and sports copy editor for The Bryan-College Station Eagle in 1983. She worked for The Huntsville Item in 1984. Then she was hired by the Austin American-Statesman in 1985 as a sports copy editor, later becoming an assistant arts & entertainment editor and ended working for the ...
The First Texas News Barons. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005. ISBN 0-292-70977-3. Gelsanliter, David (1 May 1995). "DEMISE OF THE TIMES HERALD". Fresh Ink: Behind the Scenes of a Major Metropolitan Newspaper. Foreword by Gene Roberts (First ed.). Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press. ISBN 978-0929398846. LCCN 94043363.
George McElroy was born 25 May 1922 in Houston, Texas to Hugh George McElroy and Philomena McElroy. [2] His father was a highly decorated United States Army veteran who fought in the Spanish-American War, the Pancho Villa Expedition and World War I, being awarded the Croix de Guerre for his service during the First World War. [3]
As the main local source of news at the time, The Battalion broke the news of America declaring war and joining World War I to much of the Bryan-College Station community. The below images are reprinted from The Battalion. [8] Texas A&M was heavily involved in the war effort and had a larger percentage of graduates enlisted than any other ...
In May 1905, Amon G. Carter accepted a job as an advertising space salesman in Fort Worth. A few months later, he agreed to help finance and run a new newspaper in town. The Fort Worth Star printed its first newspaper on February 1, 1906, with Carter as the advertising manager, [citation needed] and Louis J. Wortham as its first edi