Our Crowdfunding Groups
Happy Thanksgiving to all of our wonderful donors! This Thanksgiving, our staff is thankful for those who support student journalism. Earlier this week, we passed the $7,000 mark! WOW!! We have just over a week left of our campaign, but we are already so excited about where these funds will take our work next semester.
AMAZING, AWESOME, INCREDIBLE! What else can we say about our friends, alums and other community members who have supported our campaign this month? As of this Monday, we passed our stretch goal of $5,000 — and not only that, we passed the $6,000 mark, too! This means we’ve raised more than double our original fundraising goal! We are so excited about this generosity and the equipment it will allow us to purchase next semester. Stay tuned for more updates throughout the last half of our campaign!
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we were able to surpass our initial fundraising goal of $3,000 in the first two days of our campaign! Our staff is deeply touched by the community’s generosity and support for the Texan.
Due to this overwhelming support, we have decided to create a stretch goal of $5,000 to help us purchase additional camera and multimedia equipment, which will allow to help even more students participate at the paper who may not otherwise own this equipment themselves.
Thank you for supporting student voices, and stay tuned for more updates as we move forward with this new goal!
The Texan began printing in 1900 and became a daily publication in 1913.
Texan alumni have gone on to win 25 Pulitzer Prizes in categories including cartooning, reporting, and photography.
At the Texan, a story’s word count is referred to in inches — as in, how many inches of space the story will take up on the page. One inch equals 30 words! A donation in this amount would also cover the cost of a handheld recording device for reporters to use.
We currently have 89 people across 14 departments who are paid for their work. These students are called senior staffers, and many have worked at the Texan multiple semesters.
In addition to the managing editor and editor-in-chief, there are 228 total people working on the Texan staff this semester.
At minimum, a typical Texan story is 390 words! A donation of this size also covers the cost of a used DSLR camera, allowing more students to participate in the photo and video departments.
When the Texan prints long-form pieces, they typically start at 33 inches, or 990 words.
