Back in January the center opened a call for entries in regard to the newly launched Morley Safer Award for Outstanding Reporting. The award has been created in partnership with the family of the late CBS News correspondent Morley Safer to recognize stories that reflect his journalistic legacy. Safer’s archives are… read more 

The Briscoe Center cosponsored the recent LBJ Foundation’s summit on race in America. The summit brought together statesmen, activists, and artists for a broad-ranging discussion on the challenges the United States faces around racial issues. In particular the center welcomed former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who met with UT… read more 

It’s been nearly two years since the center’s $7 million renovation to create new exhibit and research spaces at our Research and Collections division on campus. Perhaps the most obvious result of the renovation has been our ability to curate first-class exhibits based on historical materials preserved at the center.… read more 

February is Black History Month, which gives us all the opportunity to contemplate and study the history of the Black experience in America and to celebrate the profound role that African Americans have played in the development of our nation. Accordingly, this month the Briscoe Center is showcasing the work of photographer… read more 

The 2019 spring semester will see the Briscoe Center pioneer a new kind of program, the Morley Safer Award for Outstanding Reporting, which will directly support our efforts to expand our nationally renowned news media archives as well as celebrate the hard work of journalists across North America. Those two… read more 

This month, the center opened a new exhibit on the history of the news media, The Pioneers Who Changed TV News. The exhibit focuses on the CBS show 60 Minutes, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Conceived as a “a kind of magazine for television,” it has become one of the… read more 

This fall, the Briscoe Center will bring to campus a variety of speakers and collection donors. On October 9 the center will host an evening with filmmaker Douglas Sloan, whose documentary in progress, The Moment of Truth, uses photojournalist Eddie Adams’s iconic Vietnam War image, “Saigon Execution,” to launch a broader… read more 

Last week, the center announced the donation of Village Voice investigative journalist Wayne Barrett’s papers. I want to thank the Barrett family for their generous gift. Along with the papers of other journalists—including Jules Witcover and Barrett’s colleague Jack Newfield—the center’s archival holdings related to investigative reporting are emerging as an important collection strength. The same is… read more 

With the spring semester wrapping up, I’d like to salute the center’s staff, who have handled an unprecedented amount of requests this year—from researchers in the reading room to faculty looking to bring their classes to tour our exhibits. I’d also like to congratulate all those graduating from UT Austin,… read more 

Earlier this month, the center launched a new exhibit, a graphical reproduction of a giant historical mural that depicts Texas news media history. You may remember that last year the Belo mural was removed from the Dallas Morning News building and added to the center’s news media history collection. A team of fine arts… read more