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| company = [[Texas Student Media]]
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|based         = [[University of Texas]]<br/>[[Austin, Texas]], [[United States|U.S.]]
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The '''''Texas Travesty''''' is a [[Student publication|student-produced]] [[News satire|satirical newspaper]] created and produced at the [[University of Texas at Austin]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://texastravesty.com/?page_id=148 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220173901/http://www.texastravesty.com/about |archive-date=2016-12-20 |website=Texas Travesty}}</ref>

The ''Travesty'' began in 1997<ref name="TR-Fox">{{Cite web |last=Fox |first=M. Steven |date=February 1963 |title=Texas Ranger |url=http://comixjoint.com/texasranger.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220329194954/http://comixjoint.com/texasranger.html |archive-date=2022-03-29 |website=ComixJoint |publisher=Texas Student Publications, Inc.}}</ref> as an independent, online-only publication by the Butler brothers: Kevin Butler (a former editorial columnist for ''[[The Daily Texan]]'') and Brad Butler. Within a year, the publication successfully appealed for inclusion within [[Texas Student Media]] (TSM, officially named Texas Student Publications), an auxiliary enterprise of the university which publishes ''The Daily Texan'' and produces [[KVRX-FM|KVRX]] and [[K29HW-D|TSTV]].

The staff produces six issues each school year, three each long semester.<ref name="TSMTravesty">{{Cite web |title=We are Texas Student Media |url=https://texasstudentmedia.com/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160824141109/http://www.tsm.utexas.edu/ |archive-date=2016-08-24 |website=Texas Student Media |publisher=The University of Texas at Austin}}</ref> According to the TSM itself, the ''Travesty'' currently has a print distribution of roughly 25,000 copies, in addition to thousands of online readers.<ref name=TSMTravesty/> The ''Travesty'' is supported by advertising revenue. As a publication within TSM, the paper shares some revenue and expenses with the general TSM organization. The editor-in-chief holds a non-voting position on the TSM board of directors.

Several of the ''Travesty''{{'}}s writers and editors went on to publish ''That Other Paper'', a once-popular but now-defunct [[alternative weekly]] in [[Austin, Texas]].

==Awards==
;''[[Austin Chronicle]]'' &mdash; Best of Austin
*2014: [http://www.austinchronicle.com/best-of-austin/year:2014/poll:readers/category:media/1555252/&Display=Long&BOACategory=Media&Poll=Readers Best Local Publication] (Readers' Poll)
*2010: [http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Awards/BestOfAustin/?Year=2010&Display=Long&BOACategory=Media&Poll=Readers Best Local Publication] (Readers' Poll)
*2009: [http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Awards/BestOfAustin/?Year=2009&Display=Long&BOACategory=Media&Poll=Readers Best Local Publication] (Readers' Poll)
*2006: [http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Awards/BestOfAustin/?BOACategory=Media&Year=2006&Poll=Readers&Display=Long Best Local Publication] (Readers' Poll)
*2005: [http://www.auschron.com/gyrobase/Awards/BestOfAustin_Category?seentheform=1&BOACategory=Media&Year=2005&Poll=Readers#280985 Best Local Publication] (Readers' Poll)
*2004: [http://www.auschron.com/gyrobase/Awards/BestOfAustin_Category?seentheform=1&BOACategory=Media&Year=2004&Poll=Readers#224377 Best Local Publication] (Readers' Poll)
*2003: [http://www.auschron.com/gyrobase/Awards/BestOfAustin_Category?seentheform=1&BOACategory=Media&Year=2003&Poll=Critics#168696 Best Parody Newspaper] (Critics' Choice)

== See also ==
* ''[[The Texas Ranger (magazine)|The Texas Ranger]]''

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{official website|http://www.texastravesty.com}}
* [http://www.texastravestyarchives.com/ ''Texas Travesty'' Archives (pre-2006 content)]

{{University of Texas at Austin|studentlife}}

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