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{{Infobox Newspaper
| name                = The Daily Californian
| image               =<!-- Deleted image removed:  [[File:The Daily Californian, November 9, 2007.jpg|border|300px]] -->
| caption             = Front page of The Daily Californian: <br>Nov. 9, 2007
| type                = [[Student newspaper]]
| format              = [[Tabloid (newspaper format)|Tabloid]]
| foundation          = 1871
| ceased publication  = 
| price               = Free
| owners              = Independent Berkeley Students Publishing Company, Inc.
| publisher           = Michael Wagner
| chiefeditor          = Tomer Ovadia
| assoceditor          = 
| maneditor            = Leslie Toy
| metroeditor           = Stephanie Baer
| campuseditor         = Jordan Bach-Lombardo
| campuschief          = 
| opeditor             = Emma Anderson
| sportseditor         = Jonathan Kuperberg
| photoeditor          = Taryn Erhardt
| staff               = 100-200
| language            = English
| circulation         = 10,000 (M/Tu/Th/F)
| headquarters        = Eshleman Hall<br>[[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]]<br>[[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]], [[California|CA]]<br>[[United States]] 
| ISSN                = 
| website             = [http://www.dailycal.org/ dailycal.org]
}}

'''''Daily Californian''''' (or '''''Daily Cal''''') (or '''''The Daily Californian''''') is an independent, student-run [[newspaper]] that serves the [[University of California, Berkeley]] campus and its surrounding community.  It is published Monday through Friday (but not Wednesday, owing to dwindling ad revenues) during the academic year, and twice a week during the summer. Established in 1871, ''The Daily Californian'' is one of the oldest newspapers on the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]], and one of the oldest [[college newspaper]]s in the United States. Current circulation is about 10,000 for a campus of roughly 30,000.[http://www.dailycal.org/advertising.php]

==History==
''The Daily Californian'' became independent from UC Berkeley in 1971 after the campus administration fired three senior editors over an editorial that encouraged readers to "take back" [[People's Park (Berkeley)|People's Park]].  Both sides came to an agreement, and ''The Daily Californian'' gained financial and [[editorial independence]] from the university and is now published by an independent corporation called the Independent Berkeley Students Publishing Company, Inc.  The paper licenses its name from the [[Regents of the University of California]].  [[UC Davis]], originally being the University Farm for Berkeley also started their own newspaper, ''[[The California Aggie]]''.

In the fall of 1971, ''The Daily Californian'' moved to a second floor office on the corner of [[Telegraph Avenue]] and Channing Way in Berkeley.  ''The Daily Californian'' moved to two other offices, one on Shattuck Square and on Dwight Way.  These moves, while necessary for the financial success of the newspaper, began to erode the student foundation that ran the newspaper.  The newspaper currently resides in the 6th floor of Eshleman Hall on the UC Berkeley campus.

On November 24, 1982, three days after the November 20th [[Big Game (football)|Big Game]] (now known for [[The Play]]), early morning readers of the ''Daily Cal'' were chagrined to find in the headline of the front page: "NCAA Awards Big Game to Stanford."[http://www.stanford.edu/group/axecomm/history/daily_cal_82.html]  Hundreds of copies of the ''Daily Cal'' with this fake headline had been strewn about campus in the wee hours.  This was in fact a hoax perpetrated by aggrieved Stanford fans. 

[[File:Daily Cal plastic rack.JPG|thumb|A ''Daily Cal'' rack on the UC Berkeley campus]]

A newspaper run completely by students worked very well, but financial and management problems dampened the first decade of ''The Daily Californian'''s independence. In the early 1980s, ''The Daily Californian'' was forced to take on loans, including one from UC Berkeley's student government, the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC).  

In the early 1990s, hard times and a series of financial mismanagements forced the newspaper to only publish three days a week, which made national news.  With the great support of then Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, ''The Daily Californian'' secured a new office in the 6th floor of Eshleman Hall on the south side of campus.  This office space had also housed the newspaper from 1963 to 1971.  It was during the early 1990s that ''The Daily Californian'' also began to tap its growing group of proud and successful alumni.  The Daily Californian Alumni Association was founded.  

''The Daily Californian'' has a history of publishing spirited editorials, and in some cases editions containing controversial editorials have been subjected to [[newspaper theft]]. In 2002, [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]] Mayor [[Tom Bates]] agreed to pay restitution after admitting to having thrown away a thousand copies of ''The Daily Californian'' after it endorsed his opponent, then-Mayor [[Shirley Dean]].[http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=10530] In May 2003, nearly 5,000 papers were stolen by students protesting coverage of the arrest of a Cal football player.  The largest act of theft took place in November 1996 when the paper's senior editorial board endorsed [[California Proposition 209 (1996)|Proposition 209]].<ref>Jim Herron Zamora [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1996/11/06/NEWS6702.dtl Daily Cal's 23,000 copies disappear after angry call] San Francisco Examiner. Published on November 6, 1996.</ref> Nearly 23,000 papers were stolen on Election Day 1996,<ref>Elaine Herscher [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1996/11/06/MN57116.DTL Daily Cal Stolen Off Racks -- Prop. 209 Cited] San Francisco Chronicle. Published on November 6, 1996.</ref> and in the following days copies of the paper were tossed off the balcony of the newspaper's office and burned in effigy.

On October 16, 2006, the ''Daily Cal'' launched its first blog, The Daily Clog. The Clog is a student-life blog that accumulates various tidbits about Berkeley and college life. It focuses on the UC campus, the city of Berkeley and Berkeley's online community. That year, the ''Daily Cal'' also recorded its first podcast and began text polling. Since then, ''The Daily Californian'' has added eight new blogs on topics ranging from Travel to an Editors' Blog.

On August 25, 2008, the ''Daily Cal'' announced that it would not print a paper version of the newspaper on Wednesdays amidst a decline in advertising revenues and higher newspaper costs. However, it will have an online version of the paper on Wednesdays.[http://www.dailycal.org/article/102315/daily_cal_budget_woes_force_production_cuts][http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2008-08-28/article/30950?headline=Daily-Cal-in-Financial-Trouble]

''The Daily Californian'' is an affiliate of [[UWIRE]],<ref>http://www.uwire.com/content/affiliates.html</ref> which distributes and promotes its content to their network.

== The Daily Californian Alumni Association ==

More than 400 former ''The Daily Californian'' staffers have joined The Daily Californian Alumni Association (DCAA) since its resurrection in August 1996. A unit of The Daily Californian Education Foundation, the DCAA exists to bring alumni of the newspaper together as well as to provide mentorship and financial support to the current student staff. The DCAA is one the largest and most active alumni associations of any college newspaper. A chartered club of the California Alumni Association, the Daily Californian Alumni Association holds regular reunions and receptions across the country. Alumni are established and leading journalists in such news organizations as ''The Los Angeles Times'', ''The New York Times'', ''People'' magazine, ''The Arizona Republic'', ''The San Francisco Chronicle'', ''Sports Illustrated'', NBC News, ''USA Today'' and ''The Washington Post''.

Membership is open to all former staff members of ''The Daily Californian'' or student publications office staff (pre 1971). Reunions are held every October during homecoming weekend on the Berkeley campus and offer a chance for alums to mingle and trade stories with students on the current staff.

== Current Senior Editorial Board ==

The Senior Editorial Board encompasses all the section editors as well as the development editor. The following is the Senior Editorial Board membership for spring 2012:

Tomer Ovadia, Editor in Chief and President<br>
Leslie Toy, Managing Editor<br>
Kevin Foote, Photo Editor<br>
Fiona Hannigan, Blog Editor<br>
Soumya Karlamangla, City News Editor<br>
Jonathan Kuperberg, Sports Editor<br>
J.D. Morris, University News Editor<br>
Nick Myers, Opinion Editor<br>
Elaine Ou, Night Editor<br>
Aaida Samad, Development Editor<br>
Emily Smith, Design Editor<br>
Nastia Voynovskaya, Arts & Entertainment Editor<br>
Cecilia Wong, Multimedia Editor<br>

== Awards ==

''The Daily Californian'' consistently receives numerous awards on a regional and national level for its comprehensive and innovative coverage of [[University of California, Berkeley|UC Berkeley]], the city of [[Berkeley, California|Berkeley]] and the entire [[University of California|University of California system]].

*'''2010-11'''

'''[http://www.calcollegemedia.org California College Media Association]'''

<br>1st Place - Daily Cal Twitter, Best Use of Social Media
<br>1st Place - [http://clog.dailycal.org The Daily Clog], Best Blog
<br>1st Place - [http://archive.dailycal.org/search.php?searchType=article&author=Sam+Stander Sam Stander], Best Arts & Entertainment Story
<br>1st Place - [http://archive.dailycal.org/search.php?searchType=article&author=David+Liu David Liu], Best Arts & Entertainment Column/Criticism
<br>2nd Place - The Daily Californian, General Excellence
<br>2nd Place - [http://dailycal.org dailycal.org], General Website Excellence
<br>2nd Place - The Daily Californian, Best Overall Design
<br>2nd Place - [http://archive.dailycal.org/search.php?searchType=article&author=Jack+Wang Jack Wang], Best Sports Story
<br>2nd Place - [http://archive.dailycal.org/search.php?searchType=article&author=Hayley+Hosman Hayley Hosman], Best Arts & Entertainment Column/Criticism
<br>2nd Place - Senior Editorial Board, Best Editorial 
<br>3rd Place - [http://archive.dailycal.org/search.php?searchType=article&author=Ed+Yevelev Ed Yevelev], Best Cartoon
<br>3rd Place - [http://archive.dailycal.org/search.php?searchType=article&author=Zach+E.J.+Williams Zach E.J. Williams], Best News Series
<br>3rd Place - [http://archive.dailycal.org/search.php?searchType=article&author=Javier+Panzar Javier Panzar], Best News Story (Non-Breaking)
<br>3rd Place - Jessie Tseng, Best Sports Page Design
<br>3rd Place - Jessie Tseng, Best Feature Page Design
<br>3rd Place - Brian Liyanto, Best Headline Portfolio

*'''2009-10'''

'''California College Media Association'''

<br>1st Place - The Daily Clog, Best Blog
<br>1st Place - Ed Yevelev, Best Cartoon
<br>1st Place - Lara Brucker, Best Photo Illustration
<br>1st Place - Javier Panzar, Best Feature Story
<br>1st Place - Maggie Owens, Best Arts Column
<br>1st Place - Jessie Tseng, Best Sports Page Design
<br>1st Place - Liz Cunningham, Best Infographic
<br>1st Place - Matt Kawahara, Best Sports Story
<br>1st Place - Victoria Chow, Nick Fradkin and Nathan Yan, Best Photo Series
<br>2nd Place - David Herschorn, Best Sports Photo
<br>2nd Place - Anna Hiatt, Best Feature Photo
<br>2nd Place - The Daily Clog, Best Use of Social Media
<br>2nd Place - Jimmy Tran, Best Sports Story
<br>2nd Place - Matt Kawahara, Best Sports Column
<br>2nd Place - Hannah Jewell, Best Arts Column
<br>2nd Place - Zach A. Williams, Best Breaking News
<br>3rd Place - The Daily Californian, Best Use of Social Media
<br>3rd Place - Tomer Ovadia, Best News Series
<br>3rd Place - Arielle Grant, Best Headline Portfolio
<br>3rd Place - Katherine Maslyn, Best Sports Design

*'''2007-08'''
'''Society of Professional Journalists'''
<br>Region 11 Mark of Excellence Awards
<br>1st place - Editorial Writing - Victoria Tang
<br>1st place - Sports Columns - Jon Doss
<br>3rd place - Best Daily Student Newspaper

'''Associated Collegiate Press'''
<br>1st place - Best in Show,  Newspaper Web site, Washington, DC
<br>2nd place - Best in Show, Newspaper Web site, San Diego 
<br>2nd place - Best in Show,  Interactive Multimedia Element, San Diego
<br>3rd place - Best in Show,  4-year Daily Newspaper, San Diego

'''UWIRE Top 100 Student Journalists'''
<br>Christine Borden
<br>Stephanie M. Lee

'''California College Media Association'''
<br>1st place, Online General Excellence
<br>1st place, Special Issue
<br>1st place, News Feature
<br>1st place, Arts and Entertainment Column
<br>1st place, Sports Column
<br>1st place, News Photo
<br>1st place, Sports Page Design
<br>1st place, Feature Page Design
<br>1st place, Headline Portfolio
<br>1st place, Best Cartoon
<br>2nd place, General Excellence
<br>2nd place, Overall Design
<br>2nd place, Best Special Section
<br>2nd place, Editorial
<br>2nd place, Personal Opinion
<br>2nd place, Arts and Entertainment Review
<br>2nd place, Sports Column
<br>2nd place, Feature Photo
<br>2nd place, Feature Page Design
<br>2nd place, Headline Portfolio
<br>2nd place, Best Cartoon=
<br>3rd place, Arts and Entertainment Review
<br>3rd place, Arts and Entertainment Column
<br>3rd place, Sports Story
<br>3rd place, Sports Column
<br>3rd place, News Photo
<br>3rd place, Sports Photo
<br>3rd place, Headline Portfolio
<br>3rd place, Best Cartoon
<br>3rd place, Breaking News Online

*'''2007-08'''

'''[[Associated Collegiate Press]]'''
<br>National Pacemaker, Finalist: The Daily Californian staff
<br>Newspaper Web site, First Place: www.dailycal.org
<br>Editorial Writing, First Place: Alia Salim
<br>Photo Excellence - Environmental Portrai, Second Place: Alan Wong
<br>Photo Excellence - Spot News, Honorable Mention: Jessica Kuo

*'''2006-07'''

'''[[Society of Professional Journalists]]'''
<br>1st Place, Sports Column Writing
<br>2nd Place, Online Sports Reporting
<br>3rd Place, In-Depth Reporting
<br>3rd Place, Editorial Writing
<br>3rd Place, Best Affiliated Website: "The Daily Clog"

'''California College Media Association'''
<br>1st Place, Special Section
<br>1st Place, Arts & Entertainment Review
<br>1st Place, Headline Portfolio (Dailies)
<br>1st Place, Sports-Page Design (Dailies)
<br>1st Place, News-Page Design (Dailies)
<br>1st Place, Cartoon (Dailies)
<br>1st Place, Sports Photo (Dailies)
<br>2nd Place, Illustration (Dailies)
<br>2nd Place, Headline Portfolio (Dailies)
<br>3rd Place, Best Cartoon (Dailies)
<br>3rd Place, Breaking News Online: "The Daily Clog"
<br>3rd Place, Cartoon (Dailies)
<br>Honorable Mention, Photo Illustration (Dailies)
<br>Honorable Mention, Features Photo (Dailies)

'''[[Associated Collegiate Press]]'''
<br>1st Place - Best of Show, Spring 2007 Workshop (Four-year Dailies)

==Notable alumni==
* [[Karl Kasten]] (1938) - Award-winning [[Abstract Expressionist]] artist
* [[Warrington Colescott]] (1941–42) - painter and printmaker
* [[Marguerite Higgins]] (1941) - [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning [[war correspondent]]
* [[Ron Fimrite]] (1949) - humorist, historian, author and sportswriter, best known for his 34-year career as a journalist for ''[[Sports Illustrated]]''<ref>http://alumni.dailycal.org/article/3/alums_to_honor_ron_fimrite</ref>
* [[Jann Wenner]] (1966) - Founder of ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
* [[Henry Weinstein]] (1966) - Award-winning ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' reporter<ref>http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-award13nov13,1,6600561.story</ref>
* [[Johnathan Rodgers]] (1967) - CEO/President of [[TV One (US TV network)|TV One]], former President of [[Discovery Networks]] and reporter for ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'' and ''[[Newsweek]]''<ref>http://www.tvoneonline.com/inside_tvone/bio_johnathan_rodgers.asp</ref><ref>http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:Gq-9qCuDUzMJ:alumni.dailycal.org/newsletter/winter2005.pdf+daily+californian+jim+willwerth&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=safari</ref>
* [[James Willwerth]] (1967) - Author and correspondent for ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine<ref>http://www.dailycal.org/article/16554/</ref>
* [http://www.nbcuni.com/corporate/management/executives/nbc-news/david-corvo David Corvo] (1972) - Television news producer and former broadcast journalist; current senior executive producer of [[Dateline NBC]]
* [[John R. Emshwiller]] (1972) - Senior national correspondent for ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''
* [[David Lazarus]] (1983) - business and consumer columnist for the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''; previously, award-winning columnist for the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]''<ref>http://alumni.dailycal.org/article/20/lazarus_schacht_honored_as_alumni_of_the_year</ref>
* [[Max Boot]] (1992) - Conservative columnist and author
* [[Michael Silver (sportswriter)| Michael Silver]] (1988) - NFL columnist for ''[[Yahoo Sports]]''; previously, award-winning NFL writer for ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'', authoring the magazine's Super Bowl game story for 12 straight years from 1994 through 2006; co-author of books by Jerry Rice, Dennis Rodman, Kurt Warner, and Natalie Coughlin <ref>http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/expertsarchive?author=Michael+Silver; http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/writers/michael_silver/archive/index.html</ref>

==See also==
*[[List of college newspapers]]

== References ==
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== External links ==
*''[http://www.dailycal.org/ The Daily Californian]''
*''[http://clog.dailycal.org/ The Daily Clog]''
*[http://alumni.dailycal.org/ The Daily Californian Alumni Association]

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