journalism

I’m a senior. I’m about to graduate. I’m about to get the heck out of here. And that is pretty damn scary, to be honest.

It’s asking a lot — as a Daily Californian journalist who holds great pride in attending UC Berkeley — to remain unbiased in my reporting on Cal athletics. Why do I have to be “professional” and “impartial” when I am writing about the questionable holding penalties in the Cal-Auburn game?

I fear that there has been too much commentary in this column as of late, so I am going to take this week to just tell a fun summer sex story.

On Monday, The New York Times announced that it was dissolving its sports desk in favor of drawing on sports coverage from The Athletic. But how can there be an evolution of anything if you’re dissolving an integral part of a newspaper?

It might take a second, but I promise you that every laugh we’ve shared, every joke you’ve told me and every memory we’ve made is stashed away somewhere in my brain.

Developing an open mind and coming to the realization that free speech is not limited to people with the same beliefs as me can be attributed to one thing: journalism.

There’s no one solution to increasing diversity in sports journalism, but the little things like encouragement and mentorship go a long way.

For Rong-Gong Lin II, journalism began as an excuse to ask important people a lot of questions. After almost 18 years of reporting for the Los Angeles Times, however, it has become so much more.