The Daily Californian Alumni Association

09/23/2026

🗞‼🗣CALLING ALL COMMUNITY MEMBERS 🗞‼🗣

This is a last call to RSVP for The Daily Californian's Fall Happy Hour this Saturday, September 26th from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

🗞️ Come meet this year’s editorial staff and talk about what’s ahead for Berkeley’s paper of record. Get to know the incredible community surrounding the Daily Cal while enjoying small bites and beverages, and mix and mingle with other alumni, supporters and students.

🕠 Where to Be
• When: Saturday, September 26th, 5:30-7:30 pm | Remarks at 6:00 pm
• Where: North Gate Hall

🎟️ Get Tickets
https://givebutter.com/back-to-school-happy-hour-2026-w6gyny

5️⃣ Wise Words
Got advice to share with this year’s staffers? Be a part of the program! Come ready for our 5 Wise Words challenge and offer our student journalists your best advice, boiled down to just five words.

Cost:
General tickets $25
Recent graduate tickets $10
🐻 We hope to see you there!

09/15/2026

🗣️🗣️Calling all Daily Cal alumni! 🗣️🗣️

Please join us for an alumni mixer on September 26th from 5:30pm to 7:30pm.

🗞️ Come meet this year’s editorial staff and talk about what’s ahead for Berkeley’s paper of record. Get to know the incredible community surrounding the Daily Cal while enjoying small bites and beverages, and mix and mingle with other alumni, supporters and students.

🕠 Where to Be
• When: Saturday, September 26th, 5:30-7:30 pm | Remarks at 6:00 pm
• Where: TBD (Daily Cal Office or North Gate Hall — we’ll keep you posted!)

🎟️ Get Tickets
https://givebutter.com/back-to-school-happy-hour-2026-w6gyny

5️⃣ Wise Words
Got advice to share with this year’s staffers? Be a part of the program! Come ready for our 5 Wise Words challenge and offer our student journalists your best advice, boiled down to just five words.

Cost:
General tickets $25
Recent graduate tickets $10
🐻 We hope to see you there!

09/08/2026

🍻Join us for a Back-To-School Happy Hour 9/26 @ 5:30 pm!

🗞️ Come meet this year’s editorial staff and talk about what’s ahead for Berkeley’s paper of record. Get to know the incredible community surrounding the Daily Cal while enjoying small bites and beverages, and mix and mingle with other alumni, supporters and students.

🕠 Where to Be
• When: Saturday, September 26th, 5:30-7:30 pm | Remarks at 6:00 pm
• Where: TBD (Daily Cal Office or North Gate Hall — we’ll keep you posted!)

🎟️ Get Tickets
https://givebutter.com/back-to-school-happy-hour-2026-w6gyny

5️⃣ Wise Words
Got advice to share with this year’s staffers? Be a part of the program! Come ready for our 5 Wise Words challenge and offer our student journalists your best advice, boiled down to just five words.

Cost:
General tickets $25
Recent graduate tickets $10

🐻 We hope to see you there

Join us to celebrate the beginning of the 2026-2027 school year!

09/05/2026

🌟CALLING ALL DAILY CAL ALUM 👀 -
🏈 Join us for the first Daily Cal tailgate tomorrow before Cal takes on UCLA for its first game of the season!! 🏈

Time: 2-7 pm
Location: Sproul Lot
Who: Anyone who likes football, the Daily Cal, Cal
Bring your friends!

09/02/2026

Become a member now!

🐻🌟💙Dear Daily Californian Community🐻🌟💙

Week one of back to school is in the books, and what a week it was! Our office has been buzzing with returning staff and eager students ready to jump into the newsroom.

Become a member now at this link: https://givebutter.com/daily-cal-membership-campaign

As we gear up for an exciting semester, we’re calling on you to help power the reporting that keeps Berkeley informed and trains the next generation of journalists. And there’s no better time to donate, as we are thrilled to launch a brand new membership program! With six tiers to choose from, each one comes packed with perks to celebrate your support, from exclusive merch to behind-the-scenes looks at your favorite student newspaper.

Take our Gold Membership, for instance! For $100/month or $1200/year, you’ll score Daily Cal stickers, a Stacks Magazine subscription, a weekly physical newspaper delivered right to you (yes, an actual newspaper, retro, right?), and a Daily Cal tote bag to boot. And of course, the best perk of all? Knowing you’re fueling student journalism- priceless!

08/28/2026

🌟Become a member now! Support our Back to School campaign by becoming a member at this link: https://givebutter.com/daily-cal-membership-campaign

08/25/2026

🎉 *NEW* The Daily Cal Membership Campaign

🐻 School is back in session! As our Golden Bears return to campus, we’re thrilled to launch a new way to receive the latest from the Daily Cal. From alumni to new students, from family to fans, you can empower the next generation of student journalism by joining the Daily Cal as a member!

Membership starts at just $12.50 a month, and every level comes with exciting perks! Depending on your tier, members receive special subscriptions, access to exclusive events, copies of our magazine Stacks, and custom annual gifts like our new Daily Cal mugs and notebooks. You can even score a personal tour of our newsroom! Check out our different membership categories and join the family by visiting the Daily Cal Membership Campaign page today.

Community is at the heart of everything we do, and we are incredibly grateful for your support in building an even stronger Daily Cal. If you have any questions or want to discuss other ways to make an impact, please reach out to us directly at [email protected]. Go Bears! 💛💙 Join at the link below:

By The Daily Californian Education Foundation

08/08/2026

Daily Cal Archives 🗞
Ever wonder what reporting looked like decades ago❓

We're taking a look back at our archives, including this incredible photo from alumnus Mike Lovas '68. He took this photo while working at the Daily Cal in 1967 and shared this about the recollection:

“From January 1967 to October 1967 the number of military personnel in Vietnam went from about 385,000 to about 480,000, with thousands of draft inductions taking place every week.

Activists against the war declared the week of Oct. 16 as “Stop the Draft Week.” On Oct. 16, I was covering a march of about 3,000 people for the Daily Cal as a photographer. I marched with the protestors down Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley to the Clay Street Federal Induction Center in Oakland.

Among the more than 120 protestors arrested that day for blocking the building’s entrance was Joan Baez. The first day of the protest had little violence but as the week went on, police used clubs and mace to clear the streets of protestors.

The protest did little to stop the draft but is considered one of the major anti-war protests of 1967.”

— Mike Lovas, ’68

A few quick alumni reminders:

🔥 We need a Grill Master!
We’re planning Daily Cal alumni & staff tailgates on Sproul Plaza before Cal home football games this fall and are looking for an alum who has a grill and can bring it to game days. Interested? Let us know!

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Sign up to stay up to date on Daily Cal alumni news, events and ways to get involved.

And, as always, we’d love to hear from you! Share your Daily Cal memories, updates or stories with us in the comments. 💙💛

08/02/2026

‼️👀 Game Day Tailgates: Looking for a Grill Master 👀‼️

This fall, we’re planning to host tailgate parties for Daily Cal staff and alumni on Sproul Plaza ahead of all home Cal football games!

This is a great opportunity for you to centralize your game day plans alongside student reporters and fans, including, dare we say, elements of the Calgorithm.

Daily Cal staff will be live-hawking game day issues of the print paper and staffing the grill.

We could also use your help with grilling: We need a grill and a grill master to serve up fresh hot dogs and burgers to the hungry crowds. Let us know if you have a grill and can bring it to Sproul on game days! 🌟🌟

💙 Former managing editor and current board member Matt Brown, ’24, will be acting as a student-alumni envoy, so if you’d like to help, let Matt ([email protected]) or Aarya ([email protected]) know!

Coming Soon: Cal plays UCLA in a classic Pac-12 after-dark brawl on Sept. 5. Game starts at 7:30 pm. See you there!

07/31/2026

🎉 Our first-ever Berkeley Angle Summer Journalism Camp was a huge success!

The first session of The Berkeley Angle, the Daily Cal’s summer camp for high school students, was a big success! This week we’ve begun our second session, with the program at maximum capacity.

“I learned so much from this camp. ... I would definitely do it again if I was given the chance,” said a participant in our first session.

Led by our own staff, we’re teaching the fundamentals of news reporting and opinion writing, in addition to law and ethics and the use of AI in journalism.

You can read some of the stories that our students wrote, including a profile of a local vegan restaurant and reporting on federal cuts threatening programs such as UC Berkeley’s California Language Archive.

We're incredibly proud of our staff for mentoring the next generation of journalists and expanding the Daily Cal's impact beyond campus.

Game Day Tailgates 🐻🌟

As we head into football season, we'd love to reconnect with our alumni community! We're planning game day tailgates on Sproul Plaza before every home Cal football game and are looking for alumni who can help make them a success. We could use your help with grilling: We need a grill and a grill master to serve up fresh hot dogs and burgers to the hungry crowds. Let us know if you have a grill and can bring it to Sproul on game days!

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