Reporting on governmental affairs is one of the most crucial functions of the media. So when accusations of misconduct are levied against government officials, the media is obligated to inform readers, viewers or listeners of those claims. Doing so not only keeps the public at large informed, but it is Read More…
At The Daily Californian’s opinion section, we are constantly seeking writers to fill our pages with insightful commentary via op-eds and letters to the editor. Our goal is to provide a space where readers can express views on any relevant subject, respond to claims made in the paper or otherwise Read More…
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…
Earlier this month, the Associated Collegiate Press recognized The Daily Californian as one of the top college newspapers in the country, awarding the paper its highest honor for online student publications for the first time in the paper’s history. The Daily Cal was one of six winners for the Online Read More…
A federal judge ruled Oct. 17 that the FBI must pay a UC Berkeley alumnus and former Daily Californian writer nearly half a million dollars for withholding records concerning the bureau’s covert activities during the 1950s and 60s. Read More…
In the summer of 1933, world-famous physicist Wolfgang Pauli summoned postdoctoral student Felix Bloch to his Zurich office. What are your plans, Felix? he asked, presumably with the grandfatherly air of a concerned mentor. Well, said Bloch, I received a letter from this place named Stanford University. It’s in California. Read More…
While UC Berkeley’s football team might not rival that of Stanford, its newspaper vastly outshines the miserable broadsheet our friends to the south unjustly call a news source. In a stunning feat of cooperation, The Daily Californian and The Stanford Daily produced a single special issue for Saturday’s Big Game. Read More…
Devendra Banhart preformed through the L@TE: Friday Nights series at the Berkeley Art Museum.
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…
Watch a video with reviews of coffee shops in Berkeley by Fiona Hannigan. The coffee shops featured are Peet’s, Philz Coffee, Milano, Strada, Free Speech Movement, and Espresso Roma.