As an independent student newspaper and the paper of record for the city of Berkeley, the Daily Cal has been communicating important updates during this pandemic. Your support is essential to maintaining this coverage.
Students deserve to know what kind of workplace they would enter should they apply to The Daily Californian. While our hiring demographics are only one part of the story, releasing them every fall and spring is an important aspect of transparency. We received fewer applications overall compared to both fall
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Now more than ever, Asian American Pacific Islander college journalists should be empowered to center their community’s voices in their work.
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Gina Joseph, a media and marketing industry leader, has been elected to The Daily Californian’s Board of Directors. Joseph, ‘08, worked at the Daily Cal as an advertising account executive and was the business manager during her senior year. A Harvard Business School graduate, Joseph is Vice President of strategic
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We are not the “model minority” that sits patiently and waits to be told what to do. We are not the people who can be relied on to stay quiet and feeble.
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Since 2012, The Daily Californian has found greater financial stability (despite the volatile landscape known as the journalism industry) through UC Berkeley campus fees. These fees, which started with the passing of the V.O.I.C.E. Initiative in 2012 followed by the passing of the current Ink Initiative in 2016, were approved
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The past year has been nothing short of a challenge, but student newsrooms have risen to the occasion, as seen by the fantastic entries recognized in the 2020-21 Best of California Student Media awards. The Daily Californian scored wins in multiple categories, with works from both before and during the
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The #div_com Slack channel strives to be a resource for all staffers at The Daily Californian during the pitching, reporting, writing and editing processes.
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The Daily Californian’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee is relatively new compared to our 150 years of publishing.
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The Div Com Desk will translate weekly discussions about diversity and newsroom culture to the larger community through stories ranging in style and topic.
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When the Ink Initiative was passed by the student body in 2016, it included the following language: “An oversight committee will meet at least two times a year to examine the fee money’s allocation and to produce an annual report to the Chancellor, ASUC, and public. The oversight committee will
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