Media
95 stories
Girls Love Me »
Austin Mahone is sixteen years old. He doesn’t have a record contract, a tour bus, or a backing band. But he does have more than 650,000 followers on Twitter and the email addresses of 2,000,000 fans. Meet San Antonio’s answer to Justin Bieber.
June 2012 by Katy Vine
A Q&A with Katy Vine »
The senior editor on her glimpse into Austin Mahone's rise to teen pop stardom in a world where YouTube and Twitter are making adults in the music business scratch their heads.
June 2012 Interview by Emily Alvarado
Truth or Consequences »
In 2004 Dan Rather tarnished his career forever with a much-criticized report on George W. Bush’s National Guard service. Eight years later, the story behind the story can finally be told: what CBS’s top-ranking newsman did, what the president of the United States didn’t do, and how some feuding Texas pols got the whole ball rolling.
May 2012 by Joe Hagan
The Most Trusted Freshman In America »
Long before Walter Cronkite was the voice of the news, he was just a kid from Houston at the University of Texas, chasing girls, acting in school plays, and drinking cheap beer. Yet Douglas Brinkley, whose new biography of Cronkite will be released this month, argues that it was in Austin that the seeds of one of the greatest careers in American journalism were sown.
May 2012 by Douglas Brinkley
Narrating the Night Sky »
San Antonio's Sandy Wood has been the voice of StarDate for twenty years.
November 2011 by Sonia Smith
Anchoring the CBS Evening News »
Scott Pelley on anchoring the CBS Evening News.
October 2011 Interview by Brian D. Sweany
Watergate Still Unfolding at UT’s Ransom Center »
Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein and Robert Redford dished on All the President’s Men,contemporary journalism, and Watergate’s enduring legacy at the LBJ Library Thursday.
May 2011 by Olivia LaVecchia
Fifteen Minutes »
Read a Q&A with Katy Vine.
December 2010 Interview by Molly Bruder
Covering High Society »
Shelby Hodge on covering high society.
September 2010 Interview by Megan Giller
Alex Jones Is About To Explode »
Does the country’s most popular conspiracy talk radio host really believe that 9/11 was an inside job? That global warming is a plot cooked up by the World Bank? That an elite cabal wants to kill most of the people on the planet (including you)? Two million listeners think so—and they’re hanging on his every word.
March 2010 by Nate Blakeslee
Gone to New York »
Bud Shrake’s letters to friends back in Texas during his years in New York show the late novelist in all his ribald, freewheeling glory. And never more alive.
November 2009 Introduction by Gary Cartwright
Short Cuts: Episode I
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Texas governor’s race—in under three minutes.
November 2009
Being a Multimedia Journalist »
The CNN contributor and syndicated columnist talks about the future of media.
August 2009 Interview by Pamela Colloff
And That’s The Way It Is »
Broadcast news loses its anchor. Remembering Walter Cronkite.
July 2009 by Evan Smith
Bottoms Up »
The brave new world of Web serials and how they make money.
February 2009 by Christopher Kelly
Gone (Back) to Texas »
On Inauguration Day, Midland, Texas was like a parallel universe to the rest of the country.
February 2009 by Paul Stekler
Governor Perry Chooses License Plates
Proving his conservative credentials, Gov. Perry held a press conference with the Texas Alliance for Life to express his support for specialized “Choose Life” license plates.
January 2009 by Eileen Smith
The Day After »
Journalists and other notables to give us their reactions to the long campaign and the election of Barack Obama.
November 2008 Compiled by Eileen Smith
Bob Schieffer »
Bob Schieffer on Sundays without Tim Russert.
October 2008 Interview by Evan Smith
Charles Kuffner »
42, blogger, Houston
February 2008
MEET the DePRESSed »
The digital natives are restless, and traditional journalism just won’t cut it.
February 2008 by Eileen Smith
Writing for a Newsweekly »
Karen Tumulty on writing for Time.
January 2008 Interview by Evan Smith
Grounds for Suspicion »
Conspiring minds want to know …
September 2007 by Christopher Kelly
My Library
