A scholarship has been established to honor Fox’s legacy in journalism.
SAN ANTONIO — Kym Fox, a beloved Texas State University journalism professor, mentor and journalist, died at her home in Boerne on Saturday.
Her family confirmed the news in a post on Facebook.
Fox worked at the San Antonio Express-News for 18 years before joining the faculty at Texas State University. At the paper, she served as deputy metro editor, but it was in the classroom where she would create a legacy of service.
For more than 20 years at Texas State, Fox led the journalism program for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. She was responsible for the creation, development and curation of a number of graduate and undergraduate courses.
Countless students have called Fox a mentor, mother figure and staunch advocate for journalism and free speech in the Texas Hill Country.
Fox was also a fierce advocate of open records laws and student media.
Her office on the second floor of Old Main on Texas State’s San Marcos campus became a refuge for students in between classes who needed help with a story, wanted to vent or just needed a space to cry.
The Fox family confirms the longtime educator died at her home in Boerne after a brief battle with cancer.
A scholarship has been set up through Texas State University to continue to serve the broader journalism community for years to come.
The “Kym Fox Endowed Scholarship in Journalism and Mass Comm,” is being set up to provide funding for graduate students attending Texas State University in pursuit of a degree within the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
You can donate to the fund by clicking here.