Editor’s note: This week’s Sports on the Quad post is about the ups and downs of the Daily Bruin’s intramural basketball team. There are, unfortunately, more downs than ups. Read more...
Photo: The Daily Bruin intramural basketball game dealt with a pair of tough losses Sunday. (Korbin Placet/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Press Pass is rolling out the Daily Bruin Alumni Q&A series, where we connect with past staffers in the paper and see where the Daily Bruin has taken them in their respective careers. Read more...
Photo: David Greenwald, now a music critic at an Oregon newspaper, while at a Daily Bruin retreat in 2005. (Courtesy of David Greenwald)
Editor’s note: With the college football season now over, Sports Editor Claire Fahy reflects on covering the popular sport from the sidelines as a student journalist rubbing shoulders with veteran beat reporters. Read more...
Photo: The writer at the Oregon State football game Nov. 7 in Corvallis, Oregon. (Matthew Joye/Daily Bruin)
The lowdown on how UCLA's student journalists are recruited. Read more...
Winter quarter felt like it began yesterday, but Week 2 is already here. Regardless, we asked several Daily Bruin editors what their New Year’s resolutions were, whether they be for their personal lives or Daily Bruin-related. Read more...
Photo: (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
Here’s one phrase you’ll never hear someone say in the Daily Bruin offices at Kerckhoff 118: “I absolutely love working in a windowless office.” However, you’ll often hear our office filled with laughter, intermixed voices from various meetings, vociferous debates over the quality of Justin Bieber’s new album, and the occasional “Slack me.” The Daily Bruin started publishing in 1919, though its predecessors date back to 1912. Read more...
Photo: “This job, these people. Not sure if we’re doing it right, but at least we’re doing it together!” (Daniel Alcazar/Daily Bruin senior staff)
As journalists, our trade is stories. Listen in on a gathering of journalists out to dinner – or more likely out for drinks – and you’re likely to hear sophisticated talk about the advances in data journalism or high-minded conversation about ethical considerations of publication, wedged in between the gallows humor that describes the state of the industry, and how we’ll end up broke and on the streets with only our humanities degrees to keep us warm. Read more...
Photo: Journalists trade stories rather than cards. (Creative Commons photo by Oliver Hallmann via Flickr)
