Editor’s Blog

Daily Cal named top daily college paper, website in California for second year

Daily Cal editors and staff members attended the California College Media Association's award ceremony on Saturday and brought home 24 awards, including first place for General Newspaper Excellence and General Website Excellence.
Daily Cal editors and staff members attended the California College Media Association's award ceremony on Saturday and brought home 24 awards, including first place for General Newspaper Excellence and General Website Excellence.

For the second year in a row, The Daily Californian has been named the top daily college newspaper and website in the state and was awarded first place in six additional categories by the California College Media Association. We received a total of 24 awards for excellence in print and Read More…

Graduation 2013

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Editor’s note

We did it. We survived the rigor of UC Berkeley and made it out in one piece. The tests, the papers, the problem-sets — all of that stress and frustration is finally worth it because we will soon be graduates of the greatest public university in the world. As we Read More…

Graduation 2013

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Editor’s note: Thank you

Farewell column from the outgoing editor

When I arrived at Berkeley nearly four years ago, I knew I wanted to join The Daily Californian. Having worked on my high school paper for three years, I figured I would continue trying out this journalism thing. It was fun. I liked talking to people. I liked writing. But Read More…

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Daily Cal switches to Facebook platform for online commenting

Starting Friday, readers of The Daily Californian will be able to comment on our online content through Facebook. The Facebook Comments Box will replace Disqus, our current commenting platform, which we implemented in spring 2011 when we switched our website to a WordPress content management system. The new system requires Read More…

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Seth Rosenfeld (Kelly Fang/Senior Staff)

‘Who were the real Subversives?’

Daily Cal alumnus Seth Rosenfeld discusses new book on FBI involvement in Free Speech Movement at Berkeley

Seth Rosenfeld, author of the newly released book “Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals and Reagan’s Rise to Power,” spoke at UC Berkeley Wednesday evening to discuss his new book in which he reveals the “secret history” of the FBI’s involvement on the Berkeley campus in the 1960s. Read More…