We will match the first $1 million in donations, doubling the impact of every gift. This is your chance to help future participants thrive in our award-winning student-run media entities at UT Austin. If you would like to give to an individual entity at TSM, you can find them listed below. However, gifts to individual entities will not be matched.
Progress
out of $1 million
$404,226
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As of Feb. 2, 2026
THE FULL IMPACT
Learn how TSM changes students’ careers and lives.
Texas Student Media participants from across generations share what their experiences here mean to them, and we also provide hard data on the programs you’ll be supporting. See how the past decade of financial success is now making it possible for us to match the first $1 million in alumni donations to create the Texas Student Media Excellence Fund, effectively doubling the impact of every gift.
Want to maximize your impact? Consider giving to the Texas Student Media Excellence Fund. Your gift will be doubled with a matching contribution from TSM. Read the full details about the fund here. If you would to like make a contribution to an individual entity below, your gift go will directly toward that entity but will not be matched by TSM.
Texas Student Media Excellence Fund
Want to maximize your impact? Consider giving to the Texas Student Media Excellence Fund. Your gift will be doubled with a matching contribution from TSM.
The Daily Texan is the largest and most award-winning college publication in the nation, and our alumni have won 26 Pulitzer Prizes. Help us continue our tradition of excellence with a gift today.
Texas Student Television is the nation’s only student-run, FCC-licensed television station. We have been producing and distributing the best student-made video content on campus for 30 years. Help us expand our roster of original shows.
KVRX aspires to play “none of the hits, all of the time.” We support the Austin music scene by hosting shows and recording local bands on our Local Live show. Help us continue to avoid the hits.
The Cactus Yearbook is the oldest campus publication and serves as a time capsule for each graduating class. Help us endow our fixed printing and data storage costs to ensure we continue publishing for another 130 years.
The Drag employs more than two dozen student workers who get real-world experience producing audio storytelling projects at the only university-run podcast production house in the world.
The Travesty, UT’s official humor publication, has been voted “Best Non-Chronicle Publication” by the Austin Chronicle seven times and nominated for Best Sound Mixing at the Academy Awards. Help us keep campus laughing.
BVP provides video production services to campus partners and valuable professional experience to students. We are part of Texas Student Media and the Moody College of Communication in a cooperative effort with UT Athletics.
BurntXOrange, an alternative news site, is a digital-first student lifestyle magazine that engages with people wherever they are. They are a fun group of passionate writers, photographers, videographers and pop culture enthusiasts.
Tower & Bridge Communications is UT’s only student-run advertising and PR agency. Our goal? To prepare passionate communicators for success before they graduate and to help bridge our clients to the UT community, Austin and beyond.
